Everyone is fed up with Qualcomm at that point.
I would have no issue paying for a RISC-V + licensed PowerVR core that's well supported in Wayland and Mesa.
I would need at least some OEMs confirmation and a statement for Samsung before I believe it.
Imagination is almost dead not just because of Apple opening a chip dev branch basically across the street and offering Apple salaries to nearly anyone who wanted to jump ship, but also because of ARM licensing Mali + ARM CPUs for cheaper than ARM CPUs by themselves. It's why you see Mali in just about every Mediatek and Allwinner design. Even a free IMG GPU would be more expensive. It's why IMG went through that boondoggle buying MIPS in the first place.
So Qualcomm's complaint matches the current trajectory of ARM's corporate strategy.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/SoftBank2/SoftBank-to-discu...
1. Arm will stop licensing its processor architecture to semiconductor component manufacturers by charging payments to end-device manufacturers.
2. Only way for OEMs to get Arm-based chips will be through direct license fees
3. Third-party components such are custom GPUs and NPUs are no longer directly incorporable with Arm processors. This would probably mean they need to operate as a coprocessor of some kind that would not be tightly integrated.
3.1 This means Samsung's Exynos, AMD's PSP and Imagination's PowerVR are probably *fucked*
Conclusion: ARM is really fed up with Qualcomm and is wishing to step up the game by hurting itself. But that said, it's more like "Friendship ended with Qualcomm, Samsung and AMD (but it's more like a frenemy), now Apple and NVIDIA are my homies"