Qualcomm Attacks $3.9 Billion Deal for AI Software Company Modular

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Qualcomm in talks to provide custom chip-design services to ByteDance, sources say Qualcomm to Buy Modular for $3.9 Billion to Help AI Push Qualcomm will acquire the Silicon Valley chip startup Modular for nearly $4 billion. Modular makes and sells a chip software platform. It also produces a proprietary coding language that allows developers to write AI software to run on different chips without having to rewrite the code for each chip.