This isn't as kooky as the title makes it seem. The chip world is so small that it makes sense to maintain friendly relations with competitors for strategic reasons in the future. There's enough business and rapid development that there doesn't need to be direct competition even among supposed rivals.
Cloudflare has said it recently successfully stopped the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded. The attack reached 22.2 terabits per second and 10.6 billion packets per second, setting a new world record.
This isn't as kooky as the title makes it seem. The chip world is so small that it makes sense to maintain friendly relations with competitors for strategic reasons in the future. There's enough business and rapid development that there doesn't need to be direct competition even among supposed rivals.