Maybe, but I think the more immediate motivations are - Get customers for their fab services division, now that they're making a serious push to fab 3rd party

Maybe, but I think the more immediate motivations are - Get customers for their fab services division, now that they're making a serious push to fab 3rd party chips. - Help RISC-V threaten ARM at the low end, thus taking away attention and resources ARM could otherwise use to compete with x86 servers.