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$QCOM buying Modular was about more than adding another AI asset. I sat down with Modular CEO Chris Lattner and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano R. Amon on why the industry needs a better software model for heterogeneous compute and how Qualcomm + Modular intend to attack it. If they can...

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