On September 8, 2026, Amazon Web Services announced a partnership with Qualcomm for custom AI inference silicon and 1.6 Tbps optical interconnect gear, under a commercial commitment that could reach $60 billion through September 2036. A strong signal about the diversification of AWS’s silicon supply chain — and about the real bottleneck of AI clusters: the network.

Wi-Fi 8 (IEEE 802.11bn) is the first wireless generation that no longer tries to break a throughput record: with the same theoretical top speed as Wi-Fi 7, it targets bounded latency and “ultra-high reliability” in dense environments. The first Qualcomm and Broadcom products land in late 2026, but most users can ignore them until 2028.

On August 18, 2026, Modular open-sourced the Mojo compiler under Apache 2.0, weeks after Qualcomm acquired it for nearly $4 billion. The language opens up; the MAX inference platform stays source-available.