Arduino is preparing to launch Arduino Ventuno Q, a new hardware platform aimed at democratizing edge Artificial Intelligence. The name references the Italian word for twenty one and marks a milestone as the company approaches the 21st anniversary of its founding. The design extends the legacy of the Arduino Uno family while signaling a more mature, performance focused generation of boards for intelligent embedded systems.
Ventuno Q is built to operate at what Arduino describes as the edge of intelligence, where Artificial Intelligence systems not only analyze inputs from the physical world but also act on them directly. The board combines high performance Artificial Intelligence compute resources with deterministic real time control, enabling responsive interaction with sensors, actuators, and motors. This approach is intended to support applications that require both complex inference and precise, low latency control loops on a single platform.
The hardware architecture follows a dual brain layout similar to Arduino Uno Q but significantly upgrades overall capabilities. The main processing subsystem is based on the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 Series, designed to handle both traditional and generative Artificial Intelligence workloads, and is paired with NPU acceleration delivering up to 40 dense TOPS. A dedicated STM32H5 microcontroller manages low latency actuation and motor control tasks. Ventuno Q includes 16 GB RAM, which is described as sufficient to support concurrent inference and complex multitasking, along with an expandable 64 GB of storage for models, data, and applications.
