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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.
Apple makes less than 5% of their revenue, how is it an incredible deal for them? And how are they going to be ok for the next 18 years if Apple makes such a small percentage of their revenue?
ARM wouldn’t be the default architecture for all mold devices if it were not for Apple. Texas Instruments was a big player early on and there were others but now it’s basically ARM.