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Qualcomm Releases Linux Patches for Adreno 850 GPU One Day After Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 Launch
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 SoC at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii on September 22, 2026. The chip features the Adreno 850 GPU, which includes a new Matrix Acceleration Unit (MALU) for compute workloads. Just one day later, Qualcomm engineers submitted initial Linux kernel patches for the Adreno 850 and the related Adreno 845 'Maili' GPU to the MSM driver. The new platform is set to power the Motorola Signature 27, Motorola's first device to use a numerical naming convention based on the year. The chip also introduces Adreno Neural Fusion for gaming and a Sensing Hub for on-device AI, with Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon framing the launch as the start of the 'agentic age.'