Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
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Re: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
#2well, they'll be missed for sure.
Re: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
#3Additionally, they're launching their first joint product, the $44 Uno Q SBC, which has a Dragonwing SoC and STM32 microcontroller on an Uno form factor board[1].
It seems like Arduino will keep their brand, maintain their existing product lines, and continue building devices using other vendor's chips (besides Qualcomm), etc... but as with all acquisitions—I wonder how long that state of affairs will last.
Alternatives like the Pi RP2040/2350 and Espressif's vast selection of boards can fill the gaps, but Arduino was what got me and many people I know into microcontrollers, so I have a special fondness for them!
Re: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
#4theyre going to push "AI on the edge" and "IoT" nonsense again
absolutely unbelievably cooked. anyone pushing that nonsense, short with leverage.
low latency connectivity + goliath data centres will always beat on-device inference/training.
Re: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
#5I only feel dread when I see a Qualcomm story on HN anymore.
Re: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
#6You can make a low volume product by buying a bunch of Arduinos as your controller. You just stick them in the device. There's no license issue. While I haven't exhaustively looked, one vendor's kit I did look at explicitly stated their boards were not licensed for that kind of commercial use. Qualcomm could very well make their boards for development, test, and evaluation purposes only. And that would be my worry. It wouldn't effect tinkering at home or use in a classroom, but would mean you couldn't buy a stack of Nanos, flash them, and plug them into your project, if it is for a commercial purpose.
Re: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
#7theyre going to push "AI on the edge" and "IoT" nonsense again absolutely unbelievably cooked. anyone pushing that nonsense, short with leverage. low latency connectivity + goliath data centres will always beat on-device inference/training.
> low latency connectivity + goliath data centres will always beat on-device inference/training.
Except that it's not always an option...
Re: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
#8I only feel dread when I see a Qualcomm story on HN anymore.
Yeah, it might as well say “Oracle to acquire $FOO”
Re: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
#9At least it's not Broadcom
Re: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
#10I only feel dread when I see a Qualcomm story on HN anymore.
genuinely, what is the survival story for qualcomm entering the next decade?
- completely missed out on AI
- phones become commodity, push for complete vertical integration from apple, google
- squeezed by chinese soc vendors from 'below' (mediatek, unisoc)
they're cooked, right? there's no way out, surely.