Qualcomm buys Arduino, unveils Arduino Uno Q and Arduino App Lab | Infinium-tech

Today Qualcomm has announced that it is purchasing Arduino, which will remain an independent brand that will continue to support “a large range of microcontrollers and microprocessors from multiple semiconductor providers,” Qualcomm said in its official press release.

As a result of the acquisition, Arduino’s 33 million active users will gain access to Qualcomm’s “powerful technology stack and global reach.” The new Arduino Uno Q is a next-generation single board computer featuring a “dual brain” architecture with a Linux Debian enabled microprocessor and a real-time microcontroller. The Uno Q is powered by the Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 processor that runs a full Linux environment, and is designed to “help enable AI-powered vision and sound solutions that respond to their environment, from sophisticated smart home solutions to industrial automation systems”, says Qualcomm.

The Uno Q maintains compatibility with the Arduino IDE and the Uno ecosystem, and is also the first Arduino board to work with the Arduino App Lab, which offers an open-source system designed to “rapidly ideate, prototype, and scale AI-powered solutions to production”, running real-time OS, Linux, Integrates Arduino development journey into Python and AI flow. The App Lab is also integrated with the Edge Impulse platform, which helps “accelerate the process of building, fine-tuning, and optimizing AI models using real-world data” for object/person detection, anomaly detection, ambient sound detection, and keyword spotting.

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