Pillsbury Advises Arduino on Acquisition by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

This strategic acquisition will bring together Qualcomm’s advanced technologies with Arduino’s dynamic ecosystem of developers, educators and innovators—accelerating the development of smart, connected solutions across a range of industries. Under the agreement, Arduino will continue to operate under its own brand, maintain its open-source mission and support a broad range of microcontrollers and microprocessors from multiple vendors.

As part of the announcement, the company launched Arduino UNO Q, its first “dual-brain” board powered by the Qualcomm Dragonwing™ platform. Designed to bridge high-performance computing with real-time control, the board enables “AI in a blink” for faster, smarter prototyping.

The new board debuts alongside Arduino App Lab, a new, integrated development environment unifying Real-time OS, Linux, Python and AI workflows—making development faster and easier.

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The Pillsbury deal team was led by Corporate partners Stan Pierson and Drew Simon-Rooke and included Corporate associates Grace Lee and Tess Beimler; Executive Compensation & Benefits partner Laura McDaniels; Intellectual Property partner David Jakopin; Tax partner Brett Willis; and International Trade counsel Zachary Rozen.