[masklinn]

The rumors about Apple working on GPU cores internally long predate the Imagination "talks" (which were apparently rather shallow). In fact significant Imagination employees started leaving for Apple since at least 2015: Dave Roberts (senior design manager) left in October 2015[0] and Jonathan Redshaw (VP hardware engineering) left in November 2015[1]

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-roberts-9ba859a6

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-redshaw-30400990

[_gfrc]

Exactly. Maybe they figured that they already hired the key personnel, so there was no need to buy the whole company any longer.