Xperi has issued a call to arms among voting stockholders to block an aggressive activist attempt by investor Rubric Capital to elect two candidates to the Xperi board of directors. The TiVo owner views the US hedge fund’s nominees as inadequate and irrelevant to its future strategy – stressed in an unprecedented presentation still steaming off the press. The extraordinary 104-page slideshow is a defiant display of anti-Rubric rhetoric, explaining in great length why shareholders should vote for the incumbent slate of directors at the 2024 annual meeting, scheduled for May 24, 2024. Xperi waxes lyrical about why the two nominated director candidates should not be voted to the table—chiefly a lack of new ideas and impediment to business transformation…