Apple sues Rivos, former engineers over alleged trade secret theft

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/05/02/apple-sues-rivos-former-engineers-over-alleged-trade-secret-theft

by Bud • 4 years ago

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retskrad• 4 years ago

Damn. The Apple Silicon team must’ve been the best in the world of the last decade. Intel, AMD, Microsoft all looked at those engineers and successfully lured some of them them away. It’s not a coincidence that the M1 was such a revolutionary chip.

smoldesu3• 4 years ago

The Apple Silicon team must’ve been the best in the world of the last decade.

For my money, it's Nvidia. They may have no idea how to ship a software product, and are fairly hostile to the open-source community at large, but quite literally nobody can compete with the performance they're shipping. AMD at the top of their game is still years behind what Nvidia is releasing on a regular basis, it's kinda absurd.

The M1 is neat, but most of it's neatness comes from being the first mass-market 5nm PC chip rather than it's technical merits (eg. ARM, big.LITTLE, high-speed memory, etc). Had Apple made the exact same device on 7nm or god forbid 10nm, the buzz surrounding it wouldn't be half as intense as it is today.

NonEUCitizen• 4 years ago

NVidia knows software -- CUDA is a big part of the reason for its success.

jcranberry• 4 years ago

If that's the case, then we should see the upcoming Zen 4 chips be competitive technically correct?

There's also grace hopper chips but I don't know whether they're really comparable to any of the M1 chips.

jbverschoor2• 4 years ago

Interestingly, Rivos shares the office building with Blackberry. I guess the name stands for Research In V OS. V as in RISC V, RI as in RIM.

https://goo.gl/maps/FjvHGAPJpzLJ6HKV8

Apple sues Rivos, former engineers over alleged trade secret theft

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