Qualcomm plans to acquire Modular, which builds a chip software platform and has a proprietary coding language, in a nearly $4B deal set to close in H2 2026 (Lauren Goode/Wired)

<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/qualcomm-buys-buzzy-chip-startup-modular-for-nearly-dollar4-billion/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260624/i19.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260624/p19#a260624p19" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Lauren Goode / <a href="http://www.wired.com/">Wired</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/qualcomm-buys-buzzy-chip-startup-modular-for-nearly-dollar4-billion/">Qualcomm plans to acquire Modular, which builds a chip software platform and has a proprietary coding language, in a nearly $4B deal set to close in H2 2026</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Modular, one of the most promising chip software startups of the AI era, heads for a multibillion-dollar exit.</p>