The Californian startup Rivos, founded last year in Mountain View, has discreetly embarked on a frenzy of hiring former Apple employees and not just any: engineers who worked on the Apple Silicon project. There would be more than forty, logically left with the knowledge gained during the development of the Apple M1 chip and some of the processors that followed. Archyde.com we learn that Apple filed a complaint against Rivos for having deliberately sought to obtain access to its industrial secrets.
Two former engineers are specifically targeted by the complaint : Bhasi Kaithamana and Ricky Wen, who would have recovered thousands of files on their personal computer, including the design of the chips, before leaving Apple. They would not be the only ones to have transferred sensitive information to each other, Apple accusing other former employees of having tried to cover their tracks by erasing their computers. Apple explains that these confidential files, which would represent several hundred gigabytes, could significantly accelerate the development of competing processors. Cupertino’s lawyers are thus asking Rivos to be prohibited from using its intellectual property, in addition of course to damages.
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