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Hot Chips 2026: Intel dives deep on Crescent Island AI accelerator — larger caches and deeper XMX engines target maximum AI FLOPS per watt
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What changed
At Hot Chips 2026, Intel detailed more about its Crescent Island AI accelerator, which uses the Xe3P architecture. The accelerator will use liquid-cooled chips and HBM4 memory to serve inference workloads in data centers.
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