Didn't you read your own link? Jobs sold that 43% in the 90s for $1.1 billion to keep Apple afloat at the time. The reason that Apple doesn't pay much to ARM i

Didn't you read your own link? Jobs sold that 43% in the 90s for $1.1 billion to keep Apple afloat at the time. The reason that Apple doesn't pay much to ARM is because of the long term "architectural license" that Jobs negotiated in the 2000s well before it was clear that ARM would be the dominant powerhouse in mobile devices. At the time, Intel was pushing a low power version of their Atom chip, and Apple used that as leverage to get a deal from ARM. That type of license meant that Apple was in full control over their implementation, meaning they don't rely on the rest of ARM's IP like other licensees do. It doesn't use any Cortex designs, for instance, or any thing else in the stack. This means Apple uses less of ARM tech than any other licensee while still remaining ARM compatible.