Overview

• Qualcomm announced an agreement to buy Arduino with no price disclosed, and the deal remains subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
• Arduino will continue as an independent subsidiary and will keep supporting microcontrollers and processors from multiple semiconductor vendors.
• As a pre-closing collaboration, Arduino introduced the UNO Q board that combines Qualcomm’s Dragonwing QRB2210 processor with STMicroelectronics’ STM32U585 real-time MCU.
• UNO Q is the first hardware platform for the new Arduino App Lab IDE, which unifies RTOS, Linux and Python workflows and integrates with Edge Impulse for AI model development.
• Initial reports conflict on the QRB2210 core count in UNO Q, highlighting an unresolved specification discrepancy.