Intel is now pursuing an ex-engineer known as Varun Gupta, who recently left the company and has transferred to Microsoft and bringing "trade secrets" with him, which helped in business negotiations. Now, a lawsuit is following his new career in Microsoft after downloading several confidential files of the company onto flash drives and supplying them to the other party.
The Santa Clara computer hardware and processor company, Intel, is gunning for its confidential files back, along with the prosecution of its former employee that had transferred to Microsoft after years in Intel. The company believes that its recently concluded business negotiations were taken advantage of by Microsoft, because of the files they possess.
The long-time partnership of Intel and Microsoft has been extensive, since the early 21st century, as both companies complement each other's technology, showing a harmonious function in the systems. Windows OS runs on an Intel processor, thus powering a computer of its process and all its needs to work for human commands and functions.
Varun Gupta and Intel's Trade Secrets to Microsoft
According to Oregon Live, on-going litigation has identified that an ex-engineer of Intel has transferred to Microsoft, which sped up the business negotiations of the two, shortly after the transfer. Intel suspected that trade secrets were shared with Microsoft and that Gupta is one of the alleged insiders that brought confidential files and information.
Intel said that two flash drives contained the alleged files, with Intel's customized design for its product of Xeon processors. It is believed that this was used by Microsoft in creating their soon-releasing technology that was promised to go on par with Intel and Apple, who are chip designers in their rights.
The complaint details that Gupta has copied a massive 3,900 files from Intel to two flash drives on his last day of work, before bringing it to Microsoft. Moreover, Intel alleges that this was given to Microsoft for leverage that was then used with their negotiations, gaining an advantage over the business venture.
Microsoft's New Processor and Long-Running Relationship with Intel
While Microsoft and Intel are long-running partners that supply each other with technology, the Redmond-based computer company is transitioning to creating its Silicon chip like Cupertino's Apple. Moreover, Microsoft's new venture has opened up a new facility in Hillsboro, Oregon to focus on the company's latest innovations.
Interestingly, the facility was opened near Intel's Oregon research factory, with Microsoft openly admitting that it would be on par with Intel's processor technology with its Silicon ARM-based processors. Soon, Microsoft computers and laptops would be containing its system-on-chip (SoC) device to power its processes, discarding Intel.
Judges of the case have tasked both Intel and Microsoft to work together and solve the case side-by-side, giving each other access to files that involve the lawsuit and getting to the bottom of the complaint.
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Written by Isaiah Alonzo
