Exophase
Nothing good will ever come of Exophase.
All the dozens of ARM chipmakers just license the cores from ARM (plus GPU IP owners)
Not true for SoCs from Samsung, Qualcomm, Apple nVidia, and some others that use custom ARM cores. And I think you underplay the effort needed to make an SoC that uses licensed a CPU and GPU, there is still much else to be added and much work in the physical implementation is needed to make it not suck. For example of a big company that failed to make the ARM cores not suck, see Snapdragon 810.
The effort was big enough that a lot of players like TI and ST-Ericsson had to drop out of doing mobile oriented SoCs because they couldn't keep up.