more than 1% of what market? I think it is possible apple + Samsung produce less than 1% of all arm cores by volume. But sources for all of this would be nice,

more than 1% of what market? I think it is possible apple + Samsung produce less than 1% of all arm cores by volume. But sources for all of this would be nice, there is a lot of speculation in this thread, and most of it seems wildly uninformed (not a dig at you, thinking of elsewhere in the thread where a good portion of comments don't have a great grasp of what arm does). Another factor to consider: I believe in-house designed core, on an SoC, ends up producing more ARM IP cores than apple/samsung/nvidia/whoever IP cores. 8 or 12 in house designed main cores may be supported by up to 20 cortexes as various controllers, boot processors, audio whatsits, and security widgets. I don't know if Apple made their own small space and/or low power designs for supporting processors, but that's not how other in-house arm core based SoCs I am familiar with worked.