[tbrock]

Apple has owned part of ARM holdings as part of a joint venture between them and Acorn for decades now. That was one of the first pieces of the widget they had. Joke is on everyone making phones and servers: you are paying Apple already.

From Wikipedia:

"The company was founded in November 1990 as Advanced RISC. Machines Ltd and structured as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and VLSI Technology."

[hajile]

Apple sold their remaining stake in ARM back in 2003.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/08/12/iphone-patent-wars...