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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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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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Timeline · 2 reports

  1. 2026-08-26 12:00 · Tom's Hardware
    Hot Chips 2026: d-Matrix stacks AI accelerator directly on custom DRAM for 100 TB/s per card — TSMC 4nm compute die bonded face-to-face at a 36-micron pitch on top of a custom-designed die
  2. 2026-08-25 15:12 · Tom's Hardware
    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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