Qualcomm Buys Arduino And Presents AI Board Arduino UNO Q for 41 USD

Raspi Competitor Arduino UNO Q Qualcomm Buys Arduino and Presents AI Board Arduino UNO Q for $41

2025-10-09 From Margit Kuther | Translated by AI 2 min Reading Time

Arduino, now part of the Qualcomm family, presents UNO Q, its first "dual-brain" board with Qualcomm's Dragonwing platform for real-time intelligence, edge AI and vibe coding for around 41 USD—a challenge to Raspberry Pi.

Qualcomm buys Arduino and presents AI board Arduino UNO Q for 39 euros.(Image: Qualcomm) — Qualcomm buys Arduino and presents AI board Arduino UNO Q for 39 euros.
(Image: Qualcomm)

Qualcomm acquires Arduino. With this transaction, Qualcomm aims to expand its customer base and combine its ecosystem with Arduino's community of 33 million active users.

Arduino will maintain its open-source approach while developing a full-stack platform for modern development that includes hardware, software and cloud services—with Arduino UNO Q as the first step.

Arduino will remain an independent brand within the Qualcomm family, retaining its tools and community and continuing to support a wide range of microcontrollers and microprocessors from various semiconductor vendors.

"Dual-Brain Board Arduino UNO Q

Arduino's UNO Q single-board computer integrates a Linux Debian-enabled microprocessor with Qualcomm's QRB2210 Dragonwing processor, with AI and graphics acceleration, quad-core performance and camera, audio and display support. Furthermore, a real-time microcontroller STM32U585 for precise control and responsiveness.

With this combination of high-performance computer and controller as well as the numerous Arduino apps and bricks, the Arduino UNO Q should be interesting for makers, but also for industrial applications at the edge and in automation.

Arduino/Qualcomm is quoting a price of 41 USD for the UNO Q for the smaller model version with 2 GB RAM and 16 GB eMMX memory. This is to be delivered on October 25. A further version with 4 GB RAM and 32 GB eMMX memory is planned for the end of the year—for 56 USD.

Arduino App Lab Development Environment

In addition to being compatible with the Arduino IDE and the UNO ecosystem, UNO Q is the first Arduino board to support the Arduino App Lab, a new integrated development environment designed to unify Arduino development across real-time operating systems, Linux, Python and AI workflows.

Arduino's App Lab provides developers with an open-source platform designed for rapid conceptualization, prototyping and scaling of AI-powered solutions for production.

The seamless integration of Arduino's App Lab with Qualcomm's Edge Impulse platform is designed to streamline and accelerate the process of creating, fine-tuning and optimizing AI models using real-world data for a variety of functions such as object/people detection, anomaly detection, image classification, ambient noise detection and keyword spotting, as well as ambient noise detection and keyword spotting.

The technical specifications of the Arduino UNO Q.(Image: Qualcomm) — The technical specifications of the Arduino UNO Q.
(Image: Qualcomm)

Technical data of the Arduino UNO Q at a glance

The microprocessor (MPU) with Qualcomm's Dragonwing QRB2210 (quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 with 2.0 GHz with Adreno GPU 3D Graphics Accelerator) and the MCU STM32U585 (Arm Cortex-M33 with up to 7zu 160 MHz clock, 2 MB flash memory and 786 KB SRAM) are worth highlighting. Further details can be found in the following overview.(mk)

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