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The PyTorch Conference North America announces Qualcomm's executive vice president as a keynote speaker, scheduled for October 20-21, 2026 in San Jose, CA.

Maxime Rivest predicts Qualcomm could replicate NVIDIA's success in edge AI, citing recent acquisitions and advancements in mobile AI training efficiency compared to historical NVIDIA GPUs.

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.

At ModCon 2026, Modular announced that Mojo 1.0 is fully open source under Apache 2.0, Modular Cloud is publicly available, and the platform now supports various AI accelerators including AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and Qualcomm hardware.

Modular is hosting an Ask Us Anything live broadcast with Qualcomm on X, covering topics likely related to AI infrastructure and their collaboration.

Modular has joined Qualcomm, marking a significant milestone for MAX, Mojo, and its developer community, with a livestream AMA planned for Monday, 8/10.

Qualcomm announced it will raise prices on all its processors starting September 1st, citing unprecedented increases in memory pricing and supply constraints. The price hikes come as the company reported a 20% year-over-year drop in handset revenue.

At Qualcomm's Computer 2026 showcase, a communication glitch caused a prototype humanoid robot to execute its safe-collapse sequence, lowering itself to its knees as designed.

Qualcomm annonce une hausse de prix à deux chiffres de ses processeurs à partir du 1er septembre 2026, impactant smartphones, PC et objets connectés, en raison de la hausse des coûts des composants et des contraintes d'approvisionnement.

A robot powered by Qualcomm's new AI chip malfunctioned and died during a live presentation, highlighting potential reliability issues.

Qualcomm has informed customers of double-digit price increases starting September 1st due to component shortages, which will likely drive up prices for smartphones and other devices.

An experimental Linux driver has been developed for the Fairphone 6's ultra-wide camera, enabling QR scanning capability on mainline Linux via the qcom-camss driver and libcamera.

A detailed teardown of the BMW/Harman IDC23H infotainment unit, revealing its Qualcomm Snapdragon SA8155P processor, APIX connectivity, and integration of the instrument cluster into the head unit.

Samsung reveals two new designs of its upcoming smart glasses, developed with Google and eyewear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, featuring 9-hour battery life and AI capabilities like Gemini and Bixby.

Samsung announces Galaxy Watch 9 and Ultra 2 with significantly larger batteries, brighter displays, and a switch to Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear Elite chip, focusing on battery life and health features.

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon projects global token demand will increase 40x by 2030, driven by AI agents shifting from human-paced to persistent background operation, requiring massive infrastructure for context, memory, and error handling.

Qualcomm launched GenieX, an SDK for running LLMs on Windows laptops, achieving 20 tok/s on Gemma 4 26B and supporting llama.cpp with GGUF models.

Qualcomm releases version 2.0 of its Linux support package, improving driver and board support for its chipsets.

The article analyzes Qualcomm's $3.9B acquisition of Modular to break CUDA lock-in and Google capping Meta's Gemini compute as two manifestations of the same infrastructure bottleneck, arguing that software and capacity constraints are limiting AI scaling.

Qualcomm is aggressively expanding in AI through multiple acquisitions, including Modular (creator of Mojo and MAX inference framework) and potentially Tenstorrent, signaling a significant push against Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem.