Intel Outlines Crescent Island GPU for AI Inference; Sampling Expected in 2H 2026

Intel is preparing Crescent Island, an inference-focused data center GPU designed for enterprise systems, with customer sampling expected in the second half of 2026. Intel introduced the GPU at the 2025 OCP Global Summit. The company describes it as a 350-watt, air-cooled PCIe card based on its Xe3P architecture, with 32 Xe cores and 256 XMX engines. The reference design includes 160 GB of LPDDR5X memory, while the broader platform supports up to 480 GB. Crescent Island supports data types ranging from FP4 to FP64 and is intended for agentic artificial intelligence and other inference workloads.

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