By Marcello Majonchi, Chief Product Officer at Arduino

Sitting on my desk I have two boards. They carry the same logo, have a somewhat similar name. Their technology could not be more different, and yet the philosophy behind them is exactly the same.

On the left I have an early Arduino ® UNO ™ Rev3 , featuring a Microchip ATmega328P, a fingernail-sized piece of silicon dating back the 2000s, that powered the original Arduino revolution. On the right sits the Arduino ® VENTUNO ™ Q , running a Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-8 chipset with eight-core CPU and an NPU able to go up to 40 dense TOPS, making it the most capable AI-focused Arduino boards to date.

Both are Arduino. Both share the same pin headers.…