I think the interesting bit is actually this:
For the first time in our more than 35-year history, Arm is delivering its own silicon products
Do they need to higher Design Verification engineers for this?
Thats a huge cost compared to the average RTL jockey
What would be the real advantage of doing that?
Agreed, it will be _very_ interesting to see what waves this causes. It would be like TSMC deciding to make and sell their own CPUs, now ARM is directly competing with some of their clients.