I followed up on one announcement from CES that looked intersting to me - Intel now makes a single-board computer the size of an SD card. It may be a good thing, it may not be a good thing.
However...
In the Intel website they are also touting "Galileo" which is advertised as an Arduino compatible board. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/galileo-maker-quark-board.html
Now I've done a lot of Arduino stuff and it's been a really useful platform to prototype ideas quickly. It's extremely tolerant of mistakes and it does showy stuff very easily. If you want to have a bunch of LEDs flashing in a pattern controlled by a serial terminal, then it will take about 10 minutes to write the program and 20 minutes to wire up the hardware even if you've never seen an Arduino before. (Some prior programming experience in a C-like language is helpful, otherwise you are limited to downloading programs ["sketches" in Arduino] that other people have written. Plus it's so simple that most students are able to work out what to change to hack an existing program to do what they want.)
So Intel, in their wisdom, have created a board with a 400MHz processor running Linux that can emulate an Arduino. Most Arduino chips are 16MHz, so I think Intel has just picked a speed that lets their emulator run inefficiently and still get the job done. Nonetheless, the Arduino IO pins are driven by a port expander which has very limited speed, so you can't twiddle an output at anything like the rate that an Arduino is capable of. Goodbye SoftwareSerial, goodbye radio-control PPM emulations, goodbye pin interrupts...
Then there's the cost - more than 3 times a standard Arduino. Granted, you do get an Ethernet port with it, which may be useful to many people, so it's just under twice the cost of an Ethernet Arduino.
But the big miss in my opinion is that it REQUIRES a 5V power supply. The original Arduino accepts pretty much any voltage from 5V to 16V, which suits a lot of battery-powered devices that you might want to put the Ardunio into. The other neat feature of the original is that it can run off USB power and still do useful things while attached to your computer. So the startup cost of plugging things in and getting started understanding a simple program that blinks an LED on and off is just a USB cable. I don't have enough power outlets near my PC to plug it into power while I'm programming it.
Galileo would be spinning in his grave (slowly, at the same speed as the port expander.)