For nearly the past two months, the lawsuit between Dam Vinh Hung and Gerard Richard Williams III, the husband of singer Bich Tuyen, has been the focus of public attention.
The lawsuit stems from an accident that occurred in February 2024 at Mr. Gerard's home in Newport Coast.
At a Lunar New Year party where he lent his house to Vietnamese friends, Dam Vinh Hung was invited as a performer.
Here, the male singer was injured when he stood on the fountain and fell during a performance, resulting in hospitalization with serious injuries.
Dam Vinh Hung filed a lawsuit against Mr. Gerard, demanding $15 million in compensation, which was later reduced to $5 million for damage to health, mental health, and loss of income. However, Gerard Williams recently countersued, demanding only $2 in compensation and an apology from Dam Vinh Hung, claiming that the singer caused the accident himself.
Amidst the storm, public opinion is concerned about the identity of the billionaire - Bich Tuyen's husband, who is caught up in the scandal surrounding Dam Vinh Hung.
Gerard Williams is a renowned technology engineer who has worked for many of the world's leading technology corporations.
According to his LinkedIn profile, he is a leading expert in the fields of energy-efficient microprocessor architecture, microarchitectural engineering, and implementation design.
Gerard has extensive expertise in areas such as microprocessor architecture, multi-level cache and MMU design, memory contention resolution, power management, and physical implementation...
Gerard currently serves as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm, where he continues to develop cutting-edge microprocessor technologies.
Additionally, he is also the former CEO, Chairman and Founder of NUVIA Inc, with a vision to revolutionize the data center industry, before being acquired by Qualcomm for $1.4 billion in March 2021.
Prior to that, Gerard served as Senior Director of Platform Architecture at Apple for nearly 10 years (February 2010 - February 2019). He was the principal architect for all of Apple's CPU and SoC development, leading the design of processors such as Cyclone, Typhoon, and M1 Pro.
He was also the head of iOS processor design from the A7 (Apple's first 64-bit chip) to the A12X.
Not stopping there, he is also the author of a series of personal patents since 2001 such as "Responding to data transfer requests", "Conversion between clock signals in data processing", "Reducing leakage current in memory devices"...
Regarding his education, he holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) with honors from Arkansas State University (USA), and a Master of Science in Engineering (MSEE) from Missouri University of Science and Technology (USA).
He and singer Bich Tuyen got married in 2014 and had a daughter together in 2016.
Gerard loves Vietnamese culture, especially music, and regularly participates in community cultural activities.
Gerard shared that he and his wife had been friends with Dam Vinh Hung since 2018 and maintained a close relationship until the lawsuit happened.
