
From LLVM and Swift to Mojo and Modular, Chris Lattner has spent a quarter-century removing the seams between an idea and the machine that runs it. His newest chapter puts that long campaign inside Qualcomm.
Chris Lattner built the compilers inside every iPhone and Mac. His next act, Modular, is a bet that AI shouldn't be chained to one company's chips - and Qualcomm just paid billions to own it.