ARM was originally a joint venture of british Acorn Computers, Apple, and VLSI. There will be no ARM without investment from Apple back then. Their history goes all the way back and Apple used their ARM processor in the Newton back in 1997.
It it is still incredibly good deal for ARM to get all the fees for selling instruction sets. Apple still needs to design their processors themselves and pay for manufacturing.
This may change in the future when RISC-V may or may not take over. But it seems ARM will be ok for next 18 years with Apple contract.
ARM was originally a joint venture of british Acorn Computers, Apple, and VLSI. There will be no ARM without investment from Apple back then. Their history goes all the way back and Apple used their ARM processor in the Newton back in 1997.
It it is still incredibly good deal for ARM to get all the fees for selling instruction sets. Apple still needs to design their processors themselves and pay for manufacturing.
This may change in the future when RISC-V may or may not take over. But it seems ARM will be ok for next 18 years with Apple contract.