Qualcomm is a US chipmaker best known for the Snapdragon processors that power much of the smartphone industry, and increasingly a player in AI hardware. It builds on-device AI accelerators for phones and laptops and has moved into data-center inference chips. This hub follows Qualcomm’s AI chips, acquisitions, and its push to run AI across many kinds of hardware.
Qualcomm has agreed to buy Modular, the AI infrastructure startup behind the Mojo programming language and MAX platform, for a reported ~$4 billion, aiming to build a cross-hardware AI deployment stack.
Read more →Qualcomm on June 24 unveiled the Dragonfly data center chip family — a 250-core Arm-based CPU and a new inference accelerator — with Meta signed on to deploy the hardware in its server fleet from 2028.
Read more →Qualcomm will acquire Modular — creator of the Mojo language and MAX inference engine — in a $3.9 billion all-stock deal aimed at letting developers deploy AI on any hardware without rewrites.
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