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I'm sure they are. But Amazon has a multi year lead.

Amazon took a gamble on server ARM chips. Not a bad or blind gamble, but they had no idea if their customers would take to them at all. I'm sure if they hadn't, we'd all be sitting here saying what an obviously dumb waste of money.




AWS has a massive economic hand in ARM support. By offering cheaper compute on the ARM platform, they gave enough reason for everybody to make things work on ARM. I think they had a pretty good idea that customers would make it work for the price




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