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Qualcomm highlights hardware-agnostic push behind AI software acquisition

Qualcomm is building an integrated software environment to develop and optimise AI across different hardware, using its acquisition of Modular, CEO Cristiano Amon said at Snapdragon Summit 2026 in Maui. Qualcomm said developers face growing burdens in tailoring AI workloads to each accelerator and architecture. It plans an open, hardware-agnostic software layer supporting CPUs, GPUs, NPUs and custom silicon, and will open-source Modular’s Mojo and MAX.