Apple is one of the co-founders of the Arm holdings company all the way back then. Even though Apple and Arm are possibly "at-arms" organizations these days (n

Apple is one of the co-founders of the Arm holdings company all the way back then. Even though Apple and Arm are possibly "at-arms" organizations these days (no one outside of these organizations really will know, except the lawyers, and the contractual obligations between Apple and Arm are likely locked up and highly secretive) I'd say the other way around, that Arm is beholden to where Apple wants to take the Arm ecosystem, if only by way of showing other participants in the arm ecosystem what is possible. IE. Amazon is able to use the M1 as a gauge to how far it might be able to take its own Graviton cores.