Hot Chips 2026: Intel’s Crescent Island
Intel's upcoming Datacenter GPU, codenamed Crescent Island, features a 480 GB LPDDR5X memory subsystem, the highest capacity of any GPU or AI accelerator, enabling it to run Deepseek-V4 Flash entirely…
Intel's upcoming Datacenter GPU, codenamed Crescent Island, features a 480 GB LPDDR5X memory subsystem, the highest capacity of any GPU or AI accelerator, enabling it to run Deepseek-V4 Flash entirely…
Intel Corp. unveiled a three-pronged hardware strategy at the Hot Chips 2026 conference, positioning agentic AI as a system-level workload requiring CPUs, GPUs, memory, interconnects, and advanced pac…
Intel Corporation unveiled its Crescent Island Xe3P inference accelerator at Hot Chips 2026, featuring up to 480 GB of LPDDR5X memory on a single 350 W air-cooled PCIe card, with Intel positioning the…
Intel unveiled Crescent Island, a 350W air-cooled PCIe data center GPU for agentic AI inference, at Hot Chips 2026, featuring 160GB of LPDDR5x memory on branded cards and up to 480GB on ODM designs, w…
At Hot Chips 2026, Intel unveiled three silicon platforms for enterprise agentic AI: Diamond Rapids, a next-generation Xeon with up to 256 cores and 1.28GB LLC; Crescent Island, a 350-watt air-cooled …
Intel Corporation unveiled three architectures for Agentic AI at Hot Chips 2026: the Diamond Rapids processor, Crescent Island GPU, and Wildcat Lake SoC, built on Intel 18A process and Foveros Direct …
Intel's Compute Runtime 26.22.38646.4 release adds early support for Nova Lake processors and introduces an experimental LEO project that reimplements OpenCL atop Level Zero. The update enables OpenCL…
Intel plans to ship its new "Crescent Island" AI chip by the end of this year, using cheaper LPDDR5 memory and air cooling instead of the expensive high-bandwidth memory and liquid cooling required by…
Intel announced Xeon 6+ processors, Ethernet E835 controllers, and updates on its Crescent Island GPU at Computex 2026, positioning the CPU as the control plane for agentic AI workloads. The new chips…
According to a leaked image of Intel's upcoming "Crescent Island" AI GPU, the chip features a massive Xe3P core and bypasses the ongoing global HBM shortage by utilizing 160GB of LPDDR5X memory instea…