Intel details its Crescent Island data center GPUs, built on its Xe3P architecture and using LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM, calling them “built for agentic AI”
Unusual memory choice brings lots of AI data closer to the chip for efficiency — At Computex 2026 …
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Intel Crescent Island will do pre fill for the SambaNova RDU rack SambaNova has relucked back into a good architecture for the current models Intel not mentioning the node of Crescent Island implies that it's N2P
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Increase performance per watt and enhance efficiency in 5G telco and cloud-native applications. Today, Intel launches #IntelXeon 6+, the first data center CPU built on Intel 18A to help AI go to work. Read the press release: https://newsroom.intel.com/...
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[Tom's Hardware] Intel details long-awaited Crescent Island AI GPU at Computex, boasts up to 480 GB of LPDDR5X to combat memory shortages …
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Clearwater Forest Xeon 6990E+ performance [image]
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More Intel 18A related stuff. The first shows compute tiles for Core Ultra Series 3 processors and the second those for Core Series 3. [image]
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[Tom's Hardware] Intel Xeon 6+ ‘Clearwater Forest’ puts 18A in the data center with up to 288 cores, 576 MB of L3 cache …
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Next-Gen Xeon (Xeon 7?) alias Diamond Rapids will use Intel 18A-P for the compute tiles. There are four compute tiles with presumably 48 cores each. There will be also a significant update on the platform level: PCIe 6.0 and 2x Memory BW (more channels, higher transfer rates). [i…
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[Tom's Hardware] Intel Xeon 7 ‘Diamond Rapids’ CPUs officially launching in 2027 on Intel 18A-P — next-gen P-core Xeon features PCIe 6.0, 50% higher core counts, and twice the memory bandwidth
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Intel targets Nvidia with new AI chip by year end