> when they bought MIPs, rather unfortunately MIPs lost their biggest customer
> (>50% sales) the same day.

Could you elaborate please?

> Qualcomm [...] plan to have 16nm chips this year.

It's even 14 nm for Kryo.

http://www.qualcomm.com/news/snapdragon/2015/09/02/snapdragon-820-and-kryo-cpu-heterogeneous-computing-and-role-custom