How much of the new Apple Silicon chips did Apple actually design, given that the chips’ ARM architecture is developed by another company?

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Per [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture) the ARM architecture is developed by Arm Holdings, a British company. Given that the Apple M1 chip is an ARM-based chip, did Apple simply do minor customization on work mostly done by Arm Holdings or did it actually design substantial elements of the new chip?

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It’s a completely in house designed chipset. Architecture is more a specification on how things are laid out and how to use them. But it doesn’t say anything about how those things that are being laid out work or how they’re being made.

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