> We can only hope they've covered their investment better then they did with Intrinsity.

I think they have now as I don't recall they had a merger agreement with Intrinsity, which is what they do have with Veloce since 2009.

> It wouldn't do to have somebody pull an "Amiga" on them and buy out their interests.

The situation is not quite comparable as contrary to popular believe, Atari's loan agreement with Amiga (I guess that's what you're referring to here) was not about acquiring the Amiga company but only about licensing its Amiga chipset, so not even about having the right to the chipset IP as it would be in the case of Applied Micro and Veloce even without their merger agreement.