Lantronix Inc. announced its new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile hardware development kit. A single-board computer built on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Platform, the new HDK provides an expandable, starting point for the development of new mobile applications and devices utilizing Qualcomm Technologies Inc.'s Snapdragon 8650 System-on-Chip. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile HDK gives customers, OEMs, hardware vendors and software developers a Qualcomm-based solution that delivers powerful AI capabilities with rich graphics at very low power.

The HDK is an excellent platform for testing and executing a Large-Language Model (LLM), a type of artificial intelligence algorithm that uses deep learning techniques and large data sets to understand, generate and predict new content, all at the edge. The Qualcomm AI Engine in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is the company's first AI Engine to support multi-modal generative AI models to locally handle text, image and speech to address use cases such as dynamic content creation, image and video labeling and context-aware response. Lantronix's solutions include Intelligent Substations infrastructure, Infotainment systems and Video Surveillance, supplemented with advanced Out-of-Band Management for Cloud and Edge Computing.