Not trying to start an argument with you, but this is incorrect. Essentially all major vendors have this license, and essentially all major vendors do their ow

Not trying to start an argument with you, but this is incorrect. Essentially all major vendors have this license, and essentially all major vendors do their own heavily modified designs. They have different goals,priorities, budgets and abilities but if you buy a COTS soc from a major vendor you can bet your neck it's not original arm hard macro or even a lightly modified custom version. In fact, the only major 64-bit pure-arm soc I can think of right now is the Hisense (Huawei) Kirin 960.