Intel Introduces Crescent Island GPU for AI Inference Workloads

October 20, 2025
Intel has announced a new data center GPU, code-named Crescent Island, optimized for AI inference tasks and designed for air-cooled enterprise servers. The GPU features 160GB of LPDDR5X memory and is based on the Xe3P microarchitecture, with customer sampling expected in the second half of 2026.

At the 2025 OCP Global Summit, Intel announced in a press release a new data center GPU code-named Crescent Island, designed for AI inference workloads. The GPU will offer high memory capacity and energy-efficient performance for enterprise servers.

Crescent Island is built on Intel’s Xe3P microarchitecture, a performance-optimized version of its Xe3 GPU architecture, and includes 160GB of LPDDR5X memory. The chip is optimized for power and cost efficiency in air-cooled environments and supports a wide range of data types, making it suitable for inference and “tokens-as-a-service” applications.

Intel said it is developing an open and unified software stack for heterogeneous AI systems, currently being tested on its Arc Pro B-Series GPUs, to enable early optimizations. Customer samples of Crescent Island are expected in the second half of 2026.

The announcement represents Intel’s continued expansion of its AI accelerator portfolio, following its earlier Gaudi 3 AI accelerator and Arc Pro GPU lines aimed at addressing inference performance across data centers and enterprise environments.

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