"at $5 million for a single Cortex-A9 core license, it’s unlikely that ARM will be China’s choice. The Power ISA is cheaper, but lacks the software ecosystems t

"at $5 million for a single Cortex-A9 core license, it’s unlikely that ARM will be China’s choice. The Power ISA is cheaper, but lacks the software ecosystems that ARM and MIPS enjoy" I'm confused by these two sentences. $5 million is pocket change for a government, why would that cost for a license be putting China off? I understand that ARM is "western IP" but then why bring up the cost? And what ecosystem do MIPS and ARM have that Power doesn't? OK, unreleased versions of the next desktop / server Windows will run on ARM, but where's the MIPS part? I view Power, MIPS, and ARM all about the same in regards to software ecosystems.