This is a bit more than the article alleges. Reading over the lawsuit, as a high ranking employee, he had access to employee records including salary, bonuses a

This is a bit more than the article alleges. Reading over the lawsuit, as a high ranking employee, he had access to employee records including salary, bonuses and RSUs, just the type of information he could use to leverage recruits at Apple to come work for him. Also as a high ranking employee he had access to not only Apple's proprietary information about chips, he also knew about corporate strategy and future business plans. His business plans included designing chips that he knew Apple was planning to use in the future and could undercut the pricing of other competitors.