Historic context of Intel's ability to work with others' IP and trade secrets:
New York Times, 1997:
"The Digital Equipment Corp. stunned the computer industry and Wall Street Tuesday by filing a lawsuit contending that the Intel Corp. stole some of its patented chip designs to create the popular Pentium microprocessors, the key component in more than 85 percent of the world's personal computers.
In a remarkable suit between an industry star of the present and one of the past, Digital Equipment asked the court to order Intel to stop using Digital technology in its products and demanded triple damages for Intel's "willful infringement" of 10 Digital patents."
"Palmer said Tuesday that Digital offered to license the Alpha chip to Intel in 1991 when Intel was looking to improve the performance of its chips. He said that Intel looked carefully at Alpha before deciding not to use the chip.
When Intel introduced its Pentium Pro chip in November 1995, Palmer said he was surprised by the new chip's substantial increase in performance. His suspicions grew last August, he said, when Andrew S. Grove, Intel's chief executive, and Craig Barrett, its chief operating officer, seemed to admit in an article in The Wall Street Journal that Intel took its chip designs from others."
I'm sure they will be better this time. I'm sure they have been better since learning that lesson and compete on merit. It's not like they are cheating on benchmarks or strong arming partners. Oh wait...