Last year, Qualcomm acquired Arduino, a company known for its tinker-friendly microcontroller kits and single board computers (SBC). The first product to follow was the Uno Q, which was powerful enough to run Linux. Now comes a much more capable device that is tailor-built for AI applications, robotics, security, education and research.
The Uno Q had a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU and an Adreno 702 GPU, which shared 4GB of RAM. Lightweight AI tasks could run on the CPU and GPU.
The new Arduino Ventuno Q is a very different beast. For one, it’s powered by the Dragonwing IQ-8275 (PDF) chipset. This contains 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 somewhere in Snapdragon 765G territory. The Ventuno Q offers up to 16GB of RAM and up to 64GB of eMMC storage plus an M.2 NVMe Gen 4 connector for SSDs.
The Arduino Ventuno Q is powered by the Dragonwing IQ-8275
Even better, the Dragonwing chip has 40 TOPS of AI performance – this is comparable to Intel Panther Lake (which has a 50 TOPS NPU) and half of what the premium Snapdragon X2 Elite chips offer (80 TOPS).
This SBC can run YOLO-X models for object tracking, PoseNet for pose detection, MediaPipe for gesture recognition, local LLMs like Qwen, text-to-speech and speech-to-text models like Melo TTS and Whisper and so on.
The Dragonwing chipset runs Linux (Ubuntu or Debian) for high-level tasks. Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) is also supported. Then there is an STM32H5 microcontroller that handles real-time interactions 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 shields to easily connect things like motor controllers, sensors and more. There are also solderless Qwiic connectors on board.
The board supports three MIPI CSI cameras so it can achieve 360° vision. There is an HDMI and a MIPI DSI display port, as well as DP Alt mode over the USB-C connector. A 2.5Gb Ethernet port enables fast wired networking, while Wi-Fi 6 (ax) and Bluetooth 5.3 handle wireless connections. For industrial applications CAN-FD is also supported.
Arduino Ventuno Q
The Arduino Ventuno Q will be available in Q2 through the Arduino Store, DigiKey, Farnell, Macfos, Mouser and RS. Pricing will be announced at a later date.
