Qualcomm completed its acquisition of Modular, an AI software company co-founded by compiler pioneer Chris Lattner, to break Nvidia's lock-in by enabling AI models to run across different hardware. Qu…
On 18 August 2026, Modular open-sourced the Mojo compiler and toolchain under Apache 2, enabling a head-to-head comparison with tile-rs, a Rust dialect for accelerator kernels that enforces type, conc…
Modular open-sourced its Mojo programming language under the Apache 2.0 license on August 18, three weeks after Qualcomm completed its acquisition of the company, releasing the compiler and developer …
Qualcomm open-sourced the Mojo compiler on GitHub under Apache 2.0 with LLVM exceptions on Tuesday, three weeks after closing its $3.9 billion acquisition of Modular on 29 July. The move, which makes …
Modular shipped Mojo 1.0 on August 12 as part of its 26.5 release, marking the first production-ready version of its Python-syntax AI hardware language, with changes including uniform `var` syntax, a …
Modular shipped Mojo 1.0, the AI-focused programming language, on August 12, 2026, promising a stable 1.x lifecycle with primarily additive changes. The release comes two weeks after Qualcomm complete…
Qualcomm closed its all-stock acquisition of Modular Inc. on July 29, 2026, issuing up to 19.2 million shares valued at approximately $3.9 billion, gaining Modular's CUDA-independent AI software stack…
Qualcomm Incorporated completed its acquisition of Modular Inc. on July 29, roughly five weeks after announcing the deal on June 24, adding AI-native software infrastructure to its compute portfolio. …
Qualcomm completed its acquisition of AI software company Modular on July 29 in an all-stock transaction valued by Axios at $3.9 billion. Qualcomm said Mojo, MAX, and Modular Cloud will continue as pr…
Qualcomm completed its all-stock acquisition of Modular, the AI infrastructure company behind the Mojo programming language, on July 29, 2026. Modular co-founder and CEO Chris Lattner becomes Qualcomm…
Qualcomm Incorporated completed its acquisition of Modular Inc, an AI-native software infrastructure company, on July 29, 2026. The deal combines Modular's software platform with Qualcomm Technologies…
AMD's Advancing AI 2026 summit in San Francisco featured a panel with Chris Lattner, Ramin Hasani, and Hassan Akbari. Lattner, creator of LLVM, called AI 'mid,' arguing that the current AI surface lay…
AMD's Advancing AI 2026 event highlighted a strategy to bypass NVIDIA's CUDA moat through architecture, as argued by Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM, who also claimed AI is "mid" to emphasize that the …
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…