Apple is reportedly negotiating new settlements with Rivos in a California federal court dispute over alleged trade secrets theft in computer-chip technology.
According to a joint court filing on Friday in California federal court, Apple is opening fresh tab plans to resolve a dispute in which it was accused by tech company Rivos of stealing its trade secrets pertaining to computer-chip technology. The parties disclosed to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, opening a new tab that they had reached a settlement that may end the legal dispute and let Apple look into Rivos' servers and retrieve any private data.
In 2022, "stealth" startup Rivos was sued by Apple. It claimed that Rivos, a company based in Mountain View, California, had hired away dozens of its engineers and utilized its proprietary knowledge to create rival "system-on-chip" (SoC) technology.
Integrated circuits, or SoCs, are chips that contain many computer components, such as visual processing units and central processing units, on one chip. Apple claimed in the lawsuit that its SoC designs had changed the personal and mobile computing industries, having taken more than a decade and billions of dollars to develop.
Rivos refuted the accusations, stating that from the time Apple discovered the prospective firm, Apple had been trying to punish both Rivos and any potential employees. For unfair competition, it countersued Apple in September of last year. Last month, Apple resolved related allegations made against six former workers who quit the business to work for Rivos.
