Qualcomm Technologies is acquiring Arduino to broaden adoption of its portfolio of edge technologies and products. It is expected that the new Arduino UNO Q and Arduino App Lab will enable millions developers with Qualcomm’s Dragonwing processors.
Following this acquisition, some 33 million active users in the Arduino community will gain access to Qualcomm Technologies’s technology stack and global reach.
The acquisition builds on Qualcomm’s recent integrations of Edge Impulse and Foundries.io, which will deliver a full-stack edge platform that includes hardware, software and cloud services.
“With our acquisitions of Foundries.io, Edge Impulse, and now Arduino, we are accelerating our vision to democratize access to our leading‑edge AI and computing products for the global developer community,” said Nakul Duggal, Group General Manager, Automotive, Industrial and Embedded IoT, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “Arduino has built a vibrant global community of developers and creators. By combining their open-source ethos with Qualcomm Technologies’ portfolio of leading edge products and technologies, we’re helping enable millions of developers to create intelligent solutions faster and more efficiently—including a path towards global commercialization by leveraging the scale of our ecosystem.”
Arduino will retain its independent brand, while continuing to support a wide range of microcontrollers and microprocessors from multiple semiconductor providers as it enters this next chapter within the Qualcomm family.
The closing of this transaction is subject to regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions.
