Last year, Qualcomm acquired Arduino, a company known for its tinker-friendly microcontroller kits and single board computers (SBCs). The first product to follow was the Uno Q, which was powerful enough to run Linux. Now comes a more capable tool that is designed for AI applications, robotics, security, education, and research.
The Uno Q had a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU and Adreno 702 GPU, with 4 GB of RAM. Lightweight AI tasks can run on CPU and GPU.
The new Arduino Ventuno Q is a very different beast. For one, it is powered by the Dragonwing IQ-8275 (PDF) chipset. It includes an 8-core Kryo CPU (2x Gold Prime at 2.35GHz + 2x Gold at 2.1GHz + 4x Silver at 1.95GHz) and an Adreno 623. This puts it in Snapdragon 765G territory. The Ventuno Q offers up to 16GB of RAM and up to 64GB of eMMC storage and an M.2 NVMe Gen 4 connector for SSDs.
Arduino Ventuno Q powered by Dragonwing IQ-8275
Even better, the Dragonwing chip has 40 TOPS AI performance – that’s on par with Intel Panther Lake (which has a 50 TOPS NPU) and half as much (80 TOPS) as the premium Snapdragon X2 Elite chips.
It can run YOLO-X models for SBC object tracking, PoseNet for pose detection, MediaPipe for gesture recognition, local LLMs like Quen, text-to-speech and speech-to-text models like Mellow TTS and Whisper.
The Dragonwing chipset runs Linux (Ubuntu or Debian) for high-end tasks. Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) is also supported. Then there is an STM32H5 microcontroller that handles real-time interaction with peripherals.
“Dual Brain”: Dragonwing IQ-8275 + STM32H5
The Ventuno Q SBC has a Raspberry Pi-style 40-pin GPIO header. It also supports Arduino Uno shield to easily connect motor controllers, sensors, and more. There are also solderless quick connectors on the board.
The board supports three MIPI CSI cameras so it can achieve 360° vision. It has one HDMI and one MIPI DSI display port, as well as DP Alt Mode on the USB-C connector. The 2.5G Ethernet port enables fast wired networking, while Wi-Fi 6 (AX) and Bluetooth 5.3 handle wireless connections. CAN-FD is also supported for industrial applications.
Arduino Ventuno Q
The Arduino Ventuno Q will be available in the second quarter through the Arduino Store, DigiKey, Farnell, Macfos, Mouser, and RS. Price will be announced later.
