You’re approaching this as if every company had the same corporate intentions.

Nvidia never cared much for those types of deals. They preferred to lose Apple as a business than to admit fault, they’ve always refused to compete on price for the business of Sony and Microsoft’s consoles. They’re adamant to beat at the sound of their own drum.

Nvidia was so thirsty for an x86 license, for years, that it wouldn't consider anything else.