Qualcomm acquired AI startup Modular for $3.92 billion to gain its Mojo programming language and MAX inference engine, aiming to break NVIDIA's CUDA lock-in by enabling hardware-agnostic AI code. The …
Chris Lattner created MLIR (Multi-Level Intermediate Representation) in 2018 at Google to solve the problem of fragmented compiler infrastructure across different hardware targets and programming mode…
Qualcomm unveiled a high-bandwidth compute architecture at its 2026 investor day, aiming to challenge NVIDIA and AMD in the AI datacenter market. The AI250-series Dragonfly rack systems, featuring sta…
Qualcomm announced a series of AI initiatives, including the Dragonfly data center brand, acquisition of Modular to create an open platform, and a deal with Meta, aiming to disrupt Nvidia's dominance …
Qualcomm acquired Modular for $3.9 billion in stock, gaining its Mojo programming language and MAX inference platform to challenge NVIDIA's CUDA dominance. The deal, expected to close in the second ha…
Qualcomm is acquiring Modular, the AI infrastructure startup founded by Chris Lattner and Tim Davis, for approximately $3.92 billion in stock. The deal, announced June 24, 2026, gives Qualcomm Modular…
Qualcomm announced Meta as the first Big Tech customer for its new C1000 data center CPUs, with chips set to power Meta servers in late 2028, and plans to acquire AI software company Modular for about…
Qualcomm is in advanced negotiations to acquire AI infrastructure startup Modular for approximately $4 billion, more than doubling its last known valuation. The deal aims to bolster Qualcomm's data ce…
Qualcomm will acquire Silicon Valley chip startup Modular for nearly $4 billion, including $300 million for employees. The deal, announced Wednesday, aims to expand Qualcomm's AI capabilities beyond m…
Modular announced its annual developer conference ModCon 2026, themed 'Compute Unlocked,' will take place on August 18th in San Francisco. The event focuses on solving hardware scarcity by enabling AI…
Chris Lattner, a lead engineer on Apple's original OpenCL implementation, explains why OpenCL and other C++-based GPU programming models failed to become dominant in AI, citing slow committee-driven d…
Modular released the first beta of Mojo 1.0, a systems programming language that combines Python-like syntax with Rust-style memory safety and ownership. The language provides precise control over mem…
The Swift Concurrency Manifesto, authored by Chris Lattner, outlines a long-term vision for introducing a first-class concurrency model to Swift, focusing on task-based abstractions like async/await a…