Apple gives up legal war on iPhone CPU wizard who co-founded Nuvia
Apple has abandoned its lawsuit against its former chief chip architect Gerard Williams, just over three years after accusing him of breaching his contract to found Arm-compatible chipmaker Nuvia.that Williams, who for more than a decade oversaw the design of Apple's mobile processors, breached his contract by plotting to form Nuvia and poach his Apple colleagues to his startup, while still working in Cupertino biz.
But while Williams failed to convince the court to throw out the case, it appears Apple has lost interest in the lawsuit. Last week, the iGiant's lawyers filed a request for dismissal [ ]. Unfortunately, the macOS maker's reasons remain unclear, with the filing offering no clues as to claimants' reasoning.reached out to both Apple and Williams' attorneys for comment on the decision. Both parties declined to comment.
It's worth noting that while Williams played a significant role in developing Cupertino's family of homegrown Arm-compatible processors, Nuvia targeted a very different market. Rather than compete with Apple in the mobile and desktop processing spaces, Nuvia, at least initially, focused its efforts on the datacenter and server space, an area which Apple hasn't dabbled in for more than a decade.
In fact, it was said that Nuvia was formed after Williams and others were unable to persuade Apple to build its own custom server processors, as well as in-house personal computing silicon, and so they started up a biz to do just that: build homegrown server chips.Nuvia in a $1.4 billion deal and revealed plans to integrate its Arm-based core designs into SoCs for everything from notebooks to servers.
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