Risk factor:<p>1. 0 back to the mothership and it survives ok? Then why not ARM? Just greedy. Or we need to get some resources back to the common pool somehow. Hence unless you treat it is open source movement. But then see point 3.<p>2. All groups have a life cycle. Unless it evolves. But x86 and ARM is racing and it does not stop. In fact what stop ARM is not payment but dominance by Q. If Apple not branch out, we still have no good watch and no very fast ARM cpu. Just like intel. X86 need someone else to push so we can have 64bit and still too hot. You need competition and so far it has. And Q move is a distraction from its major war in ARM.<p>3. There is a chinese factor somewhere not mentioned. It could be easily dominated later by chinese. Imagine a cpu design dominate by Soviet Union. China is not … And it cannot due to limited information flow 2 ways.