What I meant was that Intel and AMD take the pain to be more open about their SoCs than other ARM manufacturers, and ensure there aren't 100's of them. Both are

What I meant was that Intel and AMD take the pain to be more open about their SoCs than other ARM manufacturers, and ensure there aren't 100's of them. Both are more developer friendly than others who often deliberately choose the ARM SoC's mainly to ensure they can exert control over system developers - by ensuring that details of the component hardware are only available on closed licenses or sometimes not even made available to the public at all.