Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3: Qualcomm brings on-device AI to midrange smartphones

American semiconductor entity Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 system-on-chip, which will power midrange smartphones with on-device AI capabilities. The announcement followed the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chipset arrival in Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8-series that brings flagship-grade performance and on-device AI capabilities in a tad affordable package.

Qualcomm said that the new Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 chipset supports a wide range of AI models, including large language models (LLM) such as Baichuan-7B, Llama 2, Gemini Nano and Zhipu ChatGLM.