Arduino has announced the Ventuno Q, its first product since Qualcomm acquired it last year.
The Arduino Ventuno Q is powered by the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-8275 chipset, which has two Gold Prime cores at 2.35GHz, two Gold at 2.1GHz, and four Silver at 1.95GHz. It also has an Adreno 623 graphics, up to 16GB RAM< and up to 64GB of eMMC storage.
It also comes with an M.2 NVMe Gen 4 connector for SSD storage.
The chip’s most impressive feature is its AI performance, offering up to 40 TOPS of power. To give you a perspective, the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite has 80 TOPS while the Intel Panther Lake has 50 TOPS.
It can run on Linux (Debian or Ubuntu) or Robot Operating System 2. It also has an STM32H5 microcontroller for handling real-time interactions with accessories.
So, what is this single board computer (SBC) is for? It can handle PoseNet for pose detection, YOLO-X models for object tracking, local LLMs, MediaPipe, speech-to-text and text-to-speech models, and more.
It also has a Raspberry-like 40-pin GPIO header, works with Arduino Uno shields, and Qwiic connectors. Plus, there’s an HDMI port, MIPI DSI port, and DP Alt mode through USB-C. There’s also WiFi 6 connectivity, Bluetooth 5.3, and an Ethernet port.
Pricing and availability for the Arduino Ventuno Q are yet to be announced.