Apple claims the allegedly misappropriated data is some of its most sensitive and valuable.
Apple has filed a lawsuit against a Mountain View startup called Rivos it claims poached employees who took chip-design secrets on their way out of the Cupertino iPhone giant.
“Starting in June 2021, Rivos began a coordinated campaign to target Apple employees with access to Apple proprietary and trade secret information about Apple’s designs,” the suit filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose claimed. At issue are Apple’s M1 computer chip — designed in-house and released in late 2020, marking the firm’s move away from Intel’s processing chips — and the “A15” chip used in the latest iPhones. Apple has dedicated billions of dollars to development of the chips, it said in the suit.
“During his day off, Mr. Kaithamana created a new folder on his Apple-issued computer and began copying over Apple documents containing proprietary and trade secret information,” the suit alleged. Although Kaithamana resigned from Apple on August 13, “he worked to continue amassing a collection of Apple’s proprietary and trade secret files until the day before he left Apple on August 16,” the suit claimed.
Within a week, Wen, also known as Wen Shih-Chieh, had transferred about 390 gigabytes of data — including trade secrets concerning past, current and unreleased chips — from his Apple-issued computer to a personal hard drive, and Apple found that he had accessed more chip-design secrets the day before he left Apple and just before a hard drive was connected to his company-issued computer, the suit alleged.
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