@Modular: Portability across CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators sounds simple until you've tried to build it. At #ModCon2026, @clattner…

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Modular CEO Chris Lattner and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon discussed portability across CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators at ModCon2026, emphasizing their collaboration to improve software for heterogeneous compute following Qualcomm's acquisition of Modular.

Portability across CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators sounds simple until you've tried to build it. At #ModCon2026, @clattner_llvm, @cristianoamon, and @PatrickMoorhead talked through why this problem matters and how Qualcomm and Modular are approaching it together.
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Portability across CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators sounds simple until you’ve tried to build it.

At #ModCon2026, @clattner_llvm, @cristianoamon, and @PatrickMoorhead talked through why this problem matters and how Qualcomm and Modular are approaching it together.

Patrick Moorhead (@PatrickMoorhead): $QCOM buying @Modular was about more than adding another AI asset.

I sat down with Modular CEO @clattner_llvm and Qualcomm CEO @cristianoamon on why the industry needs a better software model for heterogeneous compute and how @Qualcomm + Modular intend to attack it.

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