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SQ1/SQ2 was their previous attempt, the recently released Snapdragon Elite chips use the fully custom Oryon ARM cores they got from the Nuvia acquisition. That

SQ1/SQ2 was their previous attempt, the recently released Snapdragon Elite chips use the fully custom Oryon ARM cores they got from the Nuvia acquisition. That acquisition is what caused the current licensing drama with ARM, but for the time being they do have custom cores.

Const-me 2y ago
> custom Oryon ARM cores they got from the Nuvia acquisition Nuvia was developing server CPUs. By now, I believe backward compatibility with x86 and AMD64 is rather unimportant for servers. Hosting providers and public clouds have been offering ARM64 Linux servers for quite a few years now, all important server-running software already has native ARM64 builds.