The question is, why would they? At the moment, the M1 constitutes a competitive advantage for Apple. Licensing that processor to other manufacturers and for pu

The question is, why would they? At the moment, the M1 constitutes a competitive advantage for Apple. Licensing that processor to other manufacturers and for purposes other than building Apple hardware would only dilute that advantage. "System builders who'd like to play with an M1" doesn't seem like a relevant or sufficiently well-defined market segment to justify such a huge trade-off.