Arduino all the instruction sets! Big news from Maker Faire Rome!

The 8-bit AVR ATMega microcontroller has long been foundation of Arduino. Last year, the Arduino DUE was released which introduced the an Atmel 32-bit microcontroller based on the ARM Cortex M3. The Arduino Yun this Summer added a MIPS processing running Linux into the mix...

And this morning during ReMake the World at Maker Faire: Rome, two new models were annouced!

Arduino Announces new Boards and Collaboration with Intel and T.I.

http://makezine.com/2013/10/03/arduino-announces-two-new-linux-boards/

Intel Galileo

"first product in a new family of Arduino Certified boards featuring Intel architecture."
"a large-scale donation of 50,000 Intel Galileo boards to be given to 1,000 universities worldwide over the next 18 months."
"Intel Galileo will be available by November 29, 2013. No word yet on pricing."

Arduino TRE

"1-GHz Sitara AM335x processor" [ARM Cortex A8 like BeagleBone Black]
"made in collaboration Texas Instruments"
"is the first Arduino board manufactured in the United States."
"partially the result of a close collaboration between Arduino and the BeagleBoard.org foundation"

What does it all mean for the Arduino platform? I'm still trying to digest that... here are some links:

Galileo (Intel Arduino):

http://blog.arduino.cc/2013/10/03/massimo-banzi-reveals-an-exciting-new-product-and-collaboration-with-intel/

http://arduino.cc/en/ArduinoCertified/IntelGalileo

http://makezine.com/2013/10/03/10-great-intel-galileo-features/

http://makezine.com/2013/10/03/intel-ceo-brian-kryzanich-talks-about-arduino-partnership-and-maker-community/

http://makezine.com/2013/10/03/new-arduinointel-galileo-up-and-blinking/

http://www.fastcompany.com/3019271/fast-feed/intel-goes-hobbyist?6465549=1

TRE (BeagleBone Black meets Arduino):

http://blog.arduino.cc/2013/10/03/a-sneak-preview-of-arduino-tre/

http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardTre

http://makezine.com/2013/10/03/first-look-at-the-new-arduino-tre/