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…
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…
Modular, following its acquisition by Qualcomm, is hiring for multiple engineering roles including AI Library Architect, Mojo Compiler Engineer, and Hardware Enablement Engineer to advance its AI infr…
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 …
Modular has published a roadmap for the Mojo programming language, outlining its evolution from a prototype kernel DSL to a high-performance language for CPU and GPU coding, with plans to open-source …
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 agreed to acquire Modular for nearly $4 billion, while Cursor quietly acquired open-source coding assistant Continue and Elastic acquired AI SRE startup Deductive AI for up to $85 million. De…
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 AI startup Modular for $3.9 billion on June 24, 2026, to challenge NVIDIA's CUDA software dominance with Modular's Mojo programming language and MAX inference engine, which enable AI…
Modular announced that MAX models can now run on Apple Silicon GPUs with the 26.4 release, supporting M1 through M5 chips for text LLMs, vision models, and image diffusion models. The company is worki…
OpenAI unveiled its first custom AI chip, Jalapeño, built with Broadcom, signaling a shift away from relying solely on Nvidia for inference compute. Meanwhile, Google fired developer Justin Poehnelt a…
Onsemi announced a $7 billion all-stock acquisition of Synaptics on June 25, betting that AI will shift from cloud data centers to edge devices like cars and factory equipment. The deal, expected to c…
Meta and Qualcomm have signed a multi-year deal to consolidate AI chip infrastructure, concentrating control over the digital public square in fewer hands. Qualcomm's new Dragonfly C1000 CPU will powe…
Qualcomm announced a data center strategy that could generate over $1 billion in revenue within a year, including new CPUs, AI accelerators, and networking solutions. The company acquired Alphawave Se…
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…
OpenAI announced Jalapeño, its first custom AI chip for LLM inference, built with Broadcom and intended for ChatGPT, Codex, and future agent products, signaling a push to own more of the AI stack. Mea…
Qualcomm announced the Dragonfly data center ecosystem and AI300 inference accelerator at its Investor Day on June 23-24, 2026, claiming up to 54x effective memory bandwidth per card and 3-8x tokens-p…
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 announced Meta as its first major Big Tech customer for data center CPUs, signing a multi-generation strategic agreement centered on the Dragonfly C1000 chip designed for agentic AI workloads…