[aristophenes]

My understanding of the structure of the arrangement when I first heard about it was that it was designed to not transfer IP, but to allow China to make their own chip, in a manner of speaking, without actually having the important IP. Even ignoring national obligations, it would just be bad business to hand that over.

"AMD put significant protections in place to protect its intellectual property (IP) and prevent valuable IP from being misused or reverse engineered to develop future generations of processors."

That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if they got the IP anyway, just that wasn't the intention. AMD CEO Lisa Su made some comments a few weeks ago that the joint venture was already dead in the water and was just for one project only. I get the feeling AMD wasn't too happy about the way it all turned out.