Revealed this week at the 2025 OCP Global Summit, ‘Crescent Island’ marks the beginning of Intel’s annual cadence of GPU releases that follows similar pushes by Nvidia and AMD after dealing with more than 15 years of missteps in the accelerator chip segment. Intel on Tuesday revealed a 160-GB, energy-efficient data center GPU that is part of a new annual …
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Intel has announced its brand new AI inference GPU solution for data centers, codenamed Crescent Island, which features the Xe3P architecture. Xe3P Graphics Architecture Powers Blue Team’s Next-Gen Workstation AI Inference GPU, Crescent Island: Arriving In 2H 2026 After falling short of its AI-centric goals on the data center front, Intel is now revising its strategy a bit. The company …
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At the AI Infrastructure Summit on Tuesday, Nvidia announced a new GPU called the Rubin CPX, designed for context windows larger than 1 million tokens. Part of the chip giant’s forthcoming Rubin series, the CPX is optimized for processing large sequences of context and is meant to be used as part of a broader “disaggregated inference” infrastructure approach. For users, …
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News Summary: The NVIDIA Rubin CPX GPU is purpose-built to handle million-token coding and generative video applications. The NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL144 CPX platform packs 8 exaflops of AI performance and 100TB of fast memory in a single rack. Companies can monetize at an unprecedented scale, with $5B in token revenue for every $100M invested. AI …
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Experimental set-up The key components of our experimental set-up are shown in Fig. 1a and Extended Data Fig. 1. Optical subsystem The optical subsystem performs matrix–vector multiplication. The basic components are the optical sources (input vector), a system of fan-out optics to project the light onto the modulator matrix and a system of fan-in optics to project the light onto a …
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