In April this year, Apple publicly announced: "In the next 15 to 24 months, we will gradually stop using the GPU chips developed and designed by Imagination. Apple will develop its own GPU chips to supply their mobile product lines." (See: "Apple's Word Makes the Share Price of the British Technology Company plummet by 60%" ）Later, Imagination said that it also suddenly received the news from Apple and was still in further communication with Apple. They hoped that Apple would not steal the GPU patent technology of Imagination while developing the GPU.

According to the latest news from Bloomberg, Apple believes that Imagination has previously announced false information to the public. Apple told Imagination two years ago that it would gradually reduce the content of cooperation between the two sides, and this information was not disclosed to the public until April 2017, rather than the "sudden receipt of notice" that Imagination said. Apple believes that the two sides have cooperated for a long time, which has also provided enough preparation for this "old friend", rather than what is understood by the outside world.