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Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says leading AI labs want to run at least 100B-parameter models on phones by 2028, as he discusses on-device AI agents, memory price pressures hitting smartphone sales, smart glasses, Modular's open-sourcing, and 6G plans for the 2028 LA Olympics.
Qualcomm has legally established that Arm breached its license, prevailing in their licensing dispute despite a nominal $2 award.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon revealed that some leading AI companies want phones capable of running 100-billion-parameter models continuously by 2028, and confirmed that some of these AI firms are building their own phones.
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, a re-architected flagship mobile platform promising major performance gains across CPU, GPU and NPU for next-generation graphics and on-device AI.
Microsoft and PC makers are phasing out the Copilot+ PC branding due to past security issues with Recall and poor market reception, though the underlying AI PC specifications remain unchanged.
Microsoft is phasing out the 'Copilot+ PC' branding for new Surface devices despite them meeting the original AI PC requirements, indicating a shift in marketing strategy for AI-accelerated PCs.
Microsoft is discontinuing the 'Copilot Plus PC' brand, as new Surface devices and other PCs will no longer use this branding despite meeting AI requirements, according to reports from The Verge.
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 chip integrates Wi-Fi 6E to enable lossless audio streaming from earbuds, addressing Bluetooth limitations with improved efficiency and AI capabilities.
PrismML showcases its tiny 1-bit Bonsai LLM at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit, which can run locally on smart glasses powered by the Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 Platform, enabling real-time vision and language processing.
Linux support is announced for the Snapdragon X2 Series processors, enhancing compatibility and development opportunities for users and developers.
HUMAIN's Horizon Ultra AI PC, powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite, is now available for enterprise purchase. It runs AI workloads locally for data privacy and offloads larger tasks to the cloud.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon shared a bold vision for AI infrastructure at ModCon2026 and highlighted the acquisition of Modular as a significant benefit for the global developer ecosystem.
A keynote at PyTorch Conference North America will showcase an open software platform for heterogeneous compute powered by Mojo and MAX, addressing ecosystem challenges in deploying AI models across diverse hardware.
Intel is reportedly planning a 10 percent price hike for its PC CPUs in October, following similar increases by competitor Qualcomm.
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.