Wow, AMD inking deals with OpenAI, Q buying kid toys!
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yea.. this was big LMAO. they already have bunch of ppl. what are they making? and still have to buy another?
What a joke
Just wait for a few years and then you can forget everything about open or open source about Arduino.
And maybe in 2030, you will only be able to run the Arduino IDE on Windows with a specific driver to ensure that you only flash a firmware to a DRM controlled authentic Arduino device.
Arduino is used by many professionals. It is cheap enough that you can buy it on your corporate cards and you boss won't ask many questions. As such many products start with an Ardunio based demo, and if/when the demo is a success it moves to a real company project with a real budget.
The question though is does this add value for the owners of Arduino? All too often when a project moves from the demo to real engineering (making a demo something you can sell is typically about ten times harder than the demo) you select all new hardware.
People are making so much of this when it seems so much simpler. Qualcomm likes buying high-margin businesses, and Arduino is a high-margin business. Gross margin on their boards is over 90% (hence why you can buy a Chinese clone of a $30 board for $3) and this trend shows no signs of slowing down. The TI equivalent of the $30 Arduino Uno is $5, and it's a true gateway product.
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Future is rosy, all problems solved.
Arduino Folks will start frequenting this site now.
I suggest they start digging thru thousands of posts logged on this site over the years.
I feel sad for Arduino, I grew up with it, now it gone forever! It will become trash like most Q products!
Breaking News: Qualcomm in talks to acquire Toys R Us
@OP Some teams will be laid off to prove that the acquisition is a success. This happened before to my team. It turned out that an amateur team with only academic reputation cannot make improvements anywhere, but the amateur team survived the mass layoff in 2023