This is all a bit weird. Not at all sure I buy the phone-up-the-bum story. Mind you, this whole thing is so fucking peculiar, who knows??!
Having watched the conspiracy theory video, I revisited the stuff about Freescale in the light of what I've learned. If you didn't watch, it says the Carlyle Group owns both the surveillance company Edward Snowden worked for - Booz Allen Hamilton; it subcontracts from NASA - and Freescale.
There was also some stuff about the Bin Laden family's heavy investment in Carlyle and the embarrassing fact that George Bush was hobnobbing with them at an investor conference on 9/11. The Bin Ladens liquidated their holdings the next month, so I'm not sure how that's supposed to fit in.
Anyway. The much-discussed Freescale patent is for optimising the number of dies on a wafer. It's not as boring as it sounds - it's a way of making extremely small silicon chips. When the Wikipedia article on semiconductor chips was written, the smallest possible was 1mm square. I'm sure I've read that they're already being made smaller than this: the holy grail is to make them small enough to float as dust in the air and to penetrate skin! Argh, the future is freaky.
One of the people on the plane is an authority in SoC - systems on a chip. This means, in short, a computer system can be put on a little piece of tape, less than 1mm square. A group of people with the specialist knowledge in how to do it - from manufacturing resources & methods, to system development, to wafer carving, were all on that plane. It is absolutely true that their knowledge is worth gazillions of dollars, with implications on all areas of life. It's also true that, having been so recently awarded the patent, they are the only people who know how to do it.