You seem to imply Intel and Apple is a person. There are thousands of engineers who work on these products. Are every one of them supposed to be perfect. If legal had to read every engineers email we would get nothing done. I mean there was probably some commands the cpu sent the baseband and I am guessing Apple wanted it to be the same with the intel chip.
I am not sure if that’s how things work out in the end. Usually, all big companies have programs where you need to comply once a year or so (eg by watching training videos and answering some questions on how to write emails). Thus, they can transfer to an extent to the individual
