Intel has announced the upcoming addition of a new AI accelerator to its portfolio at the 2025 OCP Global Summit. The company introduced a data center GPU, code-named Crescent Island, aimed at supporting growing demands for AI inference workloads. According to Intel, this GPU will feature high memory capacity and is being designed for energy-efficient performance.
“AI is shifting from static training to real-time, everywhere inference—driven by agentic AI,” said Sachin Katti, CTO of Intel. “Scaling these complex workloads requires heterogeneous systems that match the right silicon to the right task, powered by an open software stack. Intel’s Xe architecture data center GPU will provide the efficient headroom customers need —and more value—as token volumes surge.”
Intel stated that as AI inference becomes more prevalent than traditional training tasks, it is necessary to innovate beyond just hardware improvements. The company emphasized the importance of integrating various types of computing resources with an open software stack focused on developers and ease of deployment.
The Crescent Island GPU is intended for use in air-cooled enterprise servers and will include 160GB of LPDDR5X memory. It will support a wide range of data types suitable for providers offering tokens-as-a-service and other inference-based applications. The chip utilizes Xe3P microarchitecture optimized for performance-per-watt.
Intel also mentioned ongoing work on its unified software stack for heterogeneous AI systems, which is currently being developed using Arc Pro B-Series GPUs. Sampling of the Crescent Island GPU for customers is planned for the second half of 2026.
According to Intel, its strategy includes co-designing systems that focus on both performance and energy efficiency while maintaining compatibility for developers. The company continues collaboration with organizations such as the Open Compute Project (OCP) to broaden deployment options across sectors including PCs, data centers, and industrial edge environments.
The company invites attendees to learn more about its solutions at their booth in Expo Hall #B3 during the summit.
