Qualcomm is acquiring DIY electronics platform Arduino

Qualcomm is acquiring Arduino, the Italian open-source electronics level down a scope of boards for tinkerers, DIY hobbyists, and educators, for an undisclosed amount. In an announcement connected Tuesday, Qualcomm says the Arduino “brand, tools, and mission” volition stay autarkic portion inactive gathering microcontrollers and microprocessors with chips from aggregate manufacturers.

In summation to the acquisition, Arduino is releasing the Uno Q, a Raspberry Pi-like committee that combines Qualcomm’s Dragonwing QRB2210 processor and a real-time microcontroller. It’s susceptible of moving Linux Debian and allows you to plug successful a keyboard, mouse, and show with a USB-C dongle. The caller committee besides supports lightweight AI models, allowing for “AI-powered imaginativeness and dependable solutions that respond to their situation successful existent time.”

The Uno Q comes with Arduino’s caller App Lab pre-installed, which the institution describes arsenic an “all-in-one improvement environment” wherever you tin negociate Arduino Sketches, Python scripts, and AI models. The Uno Q costs $44 and is disposable for pre-order starting today.

“The motorboat of UNO Q is conscionable the opening – we’re excited to empower our planetary assemblage with almighty tools that marque AI improvement intuitive, scalable, and unfastened to everyone,” Arduino CEO Fabio Violante said successful the property release.

Qualcomm adds that the woody volition alteration the much than 33 cardinal radical successful the Arduino assemblage to summation entree to Qualcomm’s technologies. “By combining their open-source ethos with Qualcomm Technologies’ portfolio of starring borderline products and technologies, we’re helping alteration millions of developers to make intelligent solutions faster and much efficiently—including a way towards planetary commercialization by leveraging the standard of our ecosystem,” Nakul Duggal, Qualcomm’s radical wide manager of automotive, industrial, and embedded IoT, said successful the property release.