This idea that these are individual company has aged, not well explained. Simply by looking at their top share holders, we would understand the pyramid is about to complete. We would like to argue or normalize our understand believing these are just common business practices. Until one read this - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-qualcomm-executivepay-idU... ... Then, you read Qualcomm executive getting hired into Intel (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intels-big-hire-qualcomm-blas...). All these companies talk the same corporation language, and please aware our time frame isn't their time frame. We can't visualize like beyond weekend but at corporation level we see beyond 5 to 10 years. Beyond corporation, we don't want to go there.

they are working together, they are reporting to same top boss. There is no secret, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSVpth7uqb4 ..