Nvidia's prefill accelerator was shelved, but Chipzilla's Crescent Island could fill the void

Crescent Island is an air-cooled chip that uses LPDDR5 memory.

At Computex 2026, Intel shared more details about its Crescent Island GPU architecture, noting that it is designed specifically for agentic AI workloads. While conventional AI…

Meanwhile, Intel and SambaNova's disaggregated inference blueprint lands its first customer

Intel is announcing the inferencing accelerator ’Crescent Island’ with a lot of LPDDR5X RAM instead of expensive HBM for the current year.

At Computex 2026, Intel unveiled an ambitious AI chip offensive spanning PCs, robotics and edge devices, promoting local AI over cloud, debuting Core Ultra 3 and 18A chips, and…

Intel, SambaNova and Foxconn will build rackscale AI infrastructure on Xeon, betting inference will pull the CPU back to the data centre’s centre.

Nvidia's prefill accelerator was shelved, but Chipzilla's Crescent Island could fill the void