Besides the fact that his public goodwill and expertise is valuable, Anand has been behind the scenes at many of Apple's competitors.

His extensive knowledge of the competition's 4-year product timeline is well worth whatever extraordinary concessions Apple must have made for him.

No evidence of course, but I'm going to think most people will say his knowledge of hardware (and his connections).

Apple could have big plans for their ARM64 platform. Anand could be part of it.