Apple has owned part of ARM holdings as part of a joint venture between them and Acorn for decades now. That was one of the first pieces of the widget they had.

Apple has owned part of ARM holdings as part of a joint venture between them and Acorn for decades now. That was one of the first pieces of the widget they had. Joke is on everyone making phones and servers: you are paying Apple already. From Wikipedia: "The company was founded in November 1990 as Advanced RISC. Machines Ltd and structured as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and VLSI Technology."