Worth remembering for those wondering, could this effect Apple? Most likely, no. Apple has every license ARM offers… and Apple actually cofounded ARM with Acor

Worth remembering for those wondering, could this effect Apple? Most likely, no. Apple has every license ARM offers… and Apple actually cofounded ARM with Acorn and VLSI and had an Apple VP as its first president, and so likely gets special unlicensed privileges. As for VLSI, it was sold to Phillips and is now owned by NXP. A company Qualcomm also tried to buy, which sells a metric ton of ARM chips themselves. Ironic that a company Apple cofounded now is now the CPU designer for every Android phone, but so is the world. Edit: If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would almost say that Qualcomm trying to buy a cofounder (NXP), and NVIDIA trying to buy ARM directly, were both attempts at getting some of those privileges, but I have no evidence for that.