The lawsuit came after Gerard Williams III left his Apple lead chip architect role in 2019 to co-found Nuvia Inc, a chip design company later acquired by Qualcomm in 2021.
Apple has dropped a lawsuit against a former executive it had accused of poaching employees for his startup, Bloomberg reports.
The lawsuit came after Gerard Williams III left his Apple lead chip architect role in 2019 to co-found Nuvia Inc, a chip design company acquired by Qualcomm in 2021. As Engadget notes, Williams had spent nearly a decade working for Apple before he left and had led the development of important milestones for the company such as its A7 mobile device chip.
After Apple filed the lawsuit, Williams filed his own and claimed Apple attempted to stop his firm from hiring its engineers while recruiting staff from his startup Nuvia at the same time.
