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Re: Qualcomm to Acquire Modular

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Post by re-thc » Fri, Jun 26, 2026, 3:48 PM UTC

refulgentis wrote: post #98

re-thc wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As you point out, it makes 0 sense to ship the M1. But that's what happened. Go check the benchmarks. Clearly you haven't. That Snapdragon X that got released (1st gen) was way off the mark. > When faced with a contradiction When faced with a hallucination...

You switched your claim from "they released the same chip they would have released 3 years earlier and you're stupid for thinking that was a good idea" to "I thought it was slow [because I'm hyperfocused on Apple competition and forgot the perf vs. Intel/AMD]".

Nothing got switched. Go check the facts. The chip was made. It was delayed due to the lawsuits and drama. The first release was an old chip. Hence slow. All the same. You can slice it how you like.

AMD barely has laptop designs (the point here) and Intel is long dead in this space.

Re: Qualcomm to Acquire Modular

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Post by toxicdevil » Fri, Jun 26, 2026, 6:42 PM UTC

MobiusHorizons wrote: post #46

ssivark wrote: post #15

Qualcomm seems to be assembling a whole portfolio of technologies/products aimed at 1. Moving beyond ARM to RISC-V 2. Being competitive for AI/could needs instai of just chips for phones and other edge devices. Interesting to see bold and high-conviction moves in this direction. Tenstorrent, Modular, Ventana, Alphawave, etc.

> Moving beyond ARM to RISC-V The reason to move away from arm has nothing to do with performance, but rather avoiding licensing snafus like happened with their laptop chips. So far no one has delivered a risc-v core with class leading performance outside of the really low end. Not saying it can’t be done, but it will likely be a step back at first.

I'm not a hardware specialist. Qualcomm already has their custom CPU core. Can't they just switch out the frontend (fetch/decode) with RISCV and the rest shouldn't be a be big problem?

Re: Qualcomm to Acquire Modular

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Post by fadenjfbc » Sun, Jun 28, 2026, 10:42 PM UTC

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Re: Qualcomm to Acquire Modular

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Post by teleforce » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 9:28 PM UTC

khurs wrote: post #86

roflcopter69 wrote: post #2

Tbh, Modular getting acquired happened sooner than I would have expected, if ever. Don't know how to feel about this one. Also so many mixed feelings about Mojo, the programming language powering Modular. Of course Chris Lattner is free to pursue whatever he wants, his many contributions to tech will always be highly regarded, but to me it feels as if he "wasted" lots of his precious mental capacity on making Mojo a…

Looked up Mojo "Mojo aims to combine the usability of a high-level programming language, specifically Python, with the performance of a system programming language such as C++, Rust, and Zig Mojo builds on the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR) compiler software framework, instead of directly on the lower level LLVM compiler framework like many languages such as Julia, Swift, C++, and Rust.[16][17] MLIR i…

>Mojo aims to combine the usability of a high-level programming language, specifically Python, with the performance of a system programming language such as C++, Rust, and Zig

Providing usability without GC is an oxymoron.

The best attempt so far for Pythonic compiled language is D, that's probably why it's not mentioned in the Wikipedia entry along side other languages comparison. D has GC by default but manual memory management is supported as well.

Probably compiler researchers need to come with truly determinstic GC like the automotive industry invented the automatic gear. So that other existing compiled programming languages with GC like Go and D can thrive.