Intel has fully detailed its Crescent Island data center GPU at Hot Chips 2026, confirming 32 Xe3P cores, 256 XMX engines, 32MB unified L2 cache, 350W TDP, and support for up to 480GB of memory. The Xe3P architecture improves on Xe2 and Xe3 with deeper systolic arrays in XMX units, FP8 and FP4 support, microscaling formats, expanded GRF, larger L1/SLM per core, and full-rate FP64 compute capabilities. Designed for agentic AI rather than gaming, Crescent Island drops 3D and ray-tracing hardware, focuses on performance per watt and AI workloads, uses an open AI software stack, and targets a 2027 launch after current-quarter sampling.
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