https://www.siliconvalley.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.