In a sense, it sort of does-- Apple was involved with ARM fairly early in their lifecycle, collaborating with their design team to build the ARM6 which was ult

In a sense, it sort of does-- Apple was involved with ARM fairly early in their lifecycle, collaborating with their design team to build the ARM6 which was ultimately used in the Newton. That's around the same time as Acorn spun out the ARM design team into its own company, and dropped the Acorn out of its name in the process (first became Advanced RISC Machines, Ltd., then just ARM Ltd.).