“Arduino will retain its independent brand, tools, and mission, […]”
That’s funny, that’s what Microsoft said about Github. Let see how long Qualcomm “allows” Arduino to retain its independence.
My bet is that everything will go proprietary now.
Really? I figured we might get some open source Qualcomm CPU drivers to support GNU/Linux
Never going to happen, their business is licensing. Maybe their RISCV chips they been heavily investing in.
I give them less than a year to turn sour and start “pivoting to a new strategy”
Independent brand, tools and mission, not company independence. 😊
what could go right?
Profits my friend, profits.
Even commercial customers should be wary of Arduino now that they have been acquired by Qualcomm. All it means is higher prices and worse product offerings.
And proprietary, so it will be the end of using compatible alternatives too.
Jup, this.
They’ll just plan obsolescence & paywall things.
Aren’t the also extremely anticompetitive with their licences.
I remember a story from ages ago that they sued a bunch of their customers for using non Qualcomm chips in devices that had Qualcomm chips in them.Yes, this wasn’t too long ago from what I remember. In a normal world, the Qualcomm executives would be put on trial for racketeering and the company would be broken up.
Would be interesting to see the Arduino IDE generating “raw iron” code for this quadcore processor. I learned to like the Arduino IDE for the RP2040 with it’s rather easy ability to run code on both cores. Having a board and environment to run raw iron code on four A53 cores would be interesting…
On the other end, why buying Arduino at all? Why not just providing a qualcomm based board and a matching Arduino BSP? If they want to promote their board and processor, just support it properly on the Arduino infrastructure.
Do you mean “bare metal” or what is “raw iron”?
I consider those terms equivalent.
Ahh OK, never heard it. I don’t believe there is much iron in computers, copper and aluminum metals yes.
So can China (& Europe) go more massively in RISC-V things, pls?
