Idle Time Gaming, Inc. needed silicon wafers that it knew could be mass produced efficiently by Silicon City, Inc., a start-up firm in India.
The Indian company needed MSG (metallurgical grade silicon) in order to make the wafers which it knew it could get from a Chinese firm.
The Chinese firm (mostly owned by the Chinese government) agreed to supply the silicon to the Indian company if it could get a certain quantity of gaming hardware from Idle Time. This beneficial exchange is described as: