I think most of the value of ARM is in its IP rather than anything else. There are plenty of good chip designers around, and the best ARM cores are often the on

I think most of the value of ARM is in its IP rather than anything else. There are plenty of good chip designers around, and the best ARM cores are often the ones designed by other companies, but ARM is ubiquitous because it's well-established and there's a lot of code written for it.