Intel details chip lineup for agentic AI

Intel is showcasing three architectures for agentic AI and enterprise-scale workloads at Hot Chips 2026: Diamond Rapids for high-performance orchestration, Crescent Island for efficient inference and Wildcat Lake for client and edge computing. The portfolio is anchored by Intel Foundry technologies, including the Intel 18A process family, Foveros Direct 3D packaging and early use of the UCIe standard for open chiplet interconnects.

Diamond Rapids, the next-generation Xeon processor, is built on Intel technology including Intel 18A-P. It combines adaptable compute blocks, a unified memory fabric and flexible I/O, with Foveros Direct 3D, UCIe-S interconnect, a high-bandwidth memory subsystem, new Advanced Performance Extensions and enhanced Advanced Matrix Extensions. Intel lists Up to 256 new cores with 1.28 GB LLC, 16 memory channels with 12800 MT/s, and 128 lanes of PCIe Gen6 and CXL 3.0.

Crescent Island is a low-power GPU aimed at real-time AI inference in existing air-cooled data centers, with 32 Xe cores and 256 XMX engines based on Xe3P, Up to 480GB LPDDR5X memory and a 350-watt air-cooled PCIe card. Wildcat Lake, launched as Intel Core Series 3 processors, brings AI to price-sensitive laptops and intelligent edge systems with an NPU delivering up to 17 TOPS, 2 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, support for up to LPDDR5X-7467, WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 6.0.