>[0] For the record, this is exactly the same thing Apple did. They bought a chip design firm and a CPU core design firm and had them build ARM cores and SoCs.

>[0] For the record, this is exactly the same thing Apple did. They bought a chip design firm and a CPU core design firm and had them build ARM cores and SoCs. That was P.A.Semi, their great chip was PWRficcient (PowerPC ISA). Ironically, most of these people (who were involved in M1) are in Rivos now, a RISC-V startup. Now, the expectation is for Qualcomm to have the engineers from Nuvia (which did ARM cores) make RISC-V cores.