Do you mean there's no ARM chips that they can buy? Surely the ARM chips in Apple's devices are powerful enough aren't they?

You can’t buy an M3 chip on its own

Why can’t someone else make one?

	▲	sitharus 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Because it’s a proprietary design? You’d have to reverse-engineer the whole chip, which is really hard to do on that process node