i.MX is a freescale in the first place. NXP bought freescale couple years ago. now qualcomm bought nxp. this is life. it will be fairly stupid to write off several years of R&D from qualcomm perspective. but who knows, of course they can. Even without acquisition nxp could have buried i.MX in favour of own arm line. and before that freescale themselves could have declared the line as non-profitable and write it off.
Sorry for such a long discourse, i just cannot find my crystal ball.