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Even other open devices (Firefox phone, Ubuntu Edge) will suffer this fate - they all, AFAIK, will require proprietary blob drivers for the GPU.

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Intel provides FOSS graphics drivers [1]. I'm not sure though whether they do mobile graphics cards with free software drivers, too.

[1] https://01.org/linuxgraphics/

Depends what you mean by "mobile".

The non-Atom chips usually have real Open GPU drivers that work the same as the desktop ones; the Atom chips [AFAIK] are the ones that primarily suffer from being PowerVR-licensed things with badly half-working "open" drivers.

Not all Atom chips have PowerVR graphics, though AFAIK all the phone and tablet Atoms do.

I think the issue here is that Qualcomm won't even allow AOSP to distribute the binary blobs.

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