I didn't read the thing but a friend sent me a headline he saw "Larry Ellison predicts everyone will be under constant surveillance"

wtf. why the hell is that 'news'?

Really sick of the world kissing up to these scumbags and making it worse.  Is it time for cake yet? Please?

"Qualcomm acquires Italian hardware company Arduino to push deeper into robotics"

Well, that is the end of them. 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/qualcomm-acquires-italian-hardware-company-arduino-in-robotics-play-.html

Arduino is bigger than Arduino at this point.  The development system is all open source, and the hardware has long since expanded way beyond Arduino-branded boards.

I'm happy to hear that the Arduino people are getting a big payday.  Now I don't have to feel bad about buying cheap clone boards.

The interesting part will be to see how they evolve the core products.  Atmel will likely be the big loser, since they'll bring out new boards with Qualcomm chips.  But the software ecosystem won't hiccup, since it's already designed to build on any supported hardware (think ESP32) and there's no such thing as distributing precompiled binaries in the Arduino world.

Looks like they do plan on moving to only their own silicon. News letter today, the next product was announced, its got their silicon.    As far as im concerned the product line is dead. 

As far as Atmel, i think the ship already sailed on that. For all practical purposes, ARM and RISC-V took their market.  Hell even expressIF is moving away from Xtensa and into RISC-V. 

Tue Oct 07 2025 17:24:28 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

Arduino is bigger than Arduino at this point.  The development system is all open source, and the hardware has long since expanded way beyond Arduino-branded boards.

I'm happy to hear that the Arduino people are getting a big payday.  Now I don't have to feel bad about buying cheap clone boards.

The interesting part will be to see how they evolve the core products.  Atmel will likely be the big loser, since they'll bring out new boards with Qualcomm chips.  But the software ecosystem won't hiccup, since it's already designed to build on any supported hardware (think ESP32) and there's no such thing as distributing precompiled binaries in the Arduino world.

And it doesn't matter!  The work is done.  The entire Arduino ecosystem is open source, and they succeeded at their mission of bringing microcontroller development to the masses without requiring megabuck$ development kits.

Thanks to the Arduino bootloader and development system, turning any microcontroller into an Arduino just requires another one with the bootloader.  Anyone can turn an Atmel microcontroller into an Arduino with not much work.   But you really don't have to, when you can get a Nano clone for $3.

Even so, Espressif is the current favorite, thanks to its network stack.  And they're everywhere.  Hell, my smoker has one to talk to its app.

I'm not going to get worried about this one.  The cat's out of the bag.  Microcontroller development has been democratized.  It isn't going back - with or without Qualcomm.