Another Apple Silicon trade secrets lawsuit

[Cmaier]

Busted: Apple silicon guys downloading gigabytes on their way out the door | Philip Elmer‑DeWitt

From Ethan Baron's Apple claims 'stealth mode' startup poached engineers who took chip secrets" posted Wednesday in TechXplore.

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It gutted me when I left AMD that I couldn’t take anything of the work I did with me, but I wasn’t going to need it anyway, and that’s the way it works. Downloading hundreds of gigs sure doesn’t sound kosher.

 

[MEJHarrison]

I caught that story the other day. I'm amazed at how far Apple went to discover what they'd done. I wonder if that's typical for when someone at that level leaves Apple? Or if they knew/suspected what was happening, and then dug in for the details. What a scary place to work if you don't intend to follow the rules.

 

[Cmaier]

I caught that story the other day. I'm amazed at how far Apple went to discover what they'd done. I wonder if that's typical for when someone at that level leaves Apple? Or if they knew/suspected what was happening, and then dug in for the details. What a scary place to work if you don't intend to follow the rules.

I’m guessing a little of both. Probably flags are raised when there are such massive data transfers, but, if not, they were probably a little suspicious given the number of people going to that company.

 

[ronntaylor]

From what I've read at other sites, more than three dozen engineers have gone to this startup and the two named in the suit were sloppy and probably left bread crumbs on the way out of the door.

 

[Cmaier]

From what I've read at other sites, more than three dozen engineers have gone to this startup and the two named in the suit were sloppy and probably left bread crumbs on the way out of the door.

Apple’s Complaint alleges all sorts of things like using Signal, wiping machines, copying stuff, etc. They are going after this company, so they would have to show that the employees weren’t doing this sort of stuff on their own.