https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/12/10/apple-sues-former-iphone-chip-designer-for-breach-of-contract/

Apple will be heading to court in January

The consumer electronics giant is suing Gerard Williams, Apple’s former chief architect of iPhone and iPad microprocessors, for breach of contract on the grounds that he started his own chip-design company while still working at Apple. Williams officially left Apple in February 2019 to launch Nuvia, a chip designer for data centers. In November, Nuvia said it had accumulated $53 million in funding.