In addition to what sibling comments already mentioned, also be aware that Apple was one of founding companies of Advanced RISC Machines Ltd (the company that b

In addition to what sibling comments already mentioned, also be aware that Apple was one of founding companies of Advanced RISC Machines Ltd (the company that became Arm Holdings plc), together Acorn Computers (which was the original A in ARM) and VLSI Technology. This was back in 1990. Before they switched to Intel x86, they were also involved in PowerPC, together with IBM and Motorola. So they are not coming from nowhere by any means.