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foregoneconclusion said:

It wasn’t limited to aging batteries. The voltage supply problems could happen with brand new batteries that were being used at charge levels below 20% or used in cold temperatures. That’s just the way that lithium ion technology works when it’s at the smartphone size level.

This was a lawsuit that never really had any merit. 

He is correct, it had no merit and was an issue whipped up into a frenzy by the tech press and various government entities looking for a excuse to bring down Apple.

I mentioned before, we were saved from our house maybe burning down when our HomePod detected the  smoke alarm going off and alerted us. We were able to rush home and pull food off the stove before things got more serious.

Employees in California can leave a company and work for a competitor - there are no restrictions on that as long as they do not take any physical  or electronic material with them. They can take all the knowledge they have and learned at the previous employer. So Apple is free, like any company, to hire away engineers and they can work on the same project they worked on at the previous company. As mentioned previously the hiring of that company's engineers is irrelevant to the patent case.
To me , it sounds like the CEO is thinking with his heart not his head, a dangerous way to behave as CEO. Maybe the board should have some words with him about brinkmanship with Apple.

This is stock price manipulation, pure and simple.

One of the big advantages of Apple's "unified" memory approach is that you do not need to be continually shuffling data to and from the GPU and worrying if the GPU has enough memory. That's why although a GPU might have a theoretical GFLOP rating that is much higher than say a M series chip, in the real world, not so much.