Comment by angry_octet
Comment by angry_octet 6 days ago
Lady Ada is not impressed:
https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/10/07/qualcomms-latest-ai-pla...
One of their key points is that the AI component is completely tied to the Qualcomm stack, the opposite of Open. Essentially the Arduino brand will live on as a marketing layer over Qualcomm hardware, which you will still need an NDA and significant volume to gain access to.
That post is written by Mr. Lady Ada, Philip Torrone (nevertheless an authority matters of open source hardware.)