The primary goal seems to be a clear warning to its employee rather than the lawsuit itself. It's pretty well known that Apple's chip department has been losing

The primary goal seems to be a clear warning to its employee rather than the lawsuit itself. It's pretty well known that Apple's chip department has been losing tons of talents to a bunch of start-up and other big techs. I don't know why, but given all ML hypes and new opportunities in hardware businesses this could be just a natural trend. In this case, it seems many other talents already have joined Nuvia (including John Bruno and Manu Gulati in a leadership group, who already left Apple a long time ago) My guess is that Gerard was the irreplaceable key person to Apple's processor strategy as an engineer and a talent hub. Apple may expect his leave to accelerate its predicament with hardware talents and this lawsuit might be a desperate attempt to stop this flow. Not sure if it will work though.