DIAMONDS, CRESCENTS AND WILDCATS: INTEL SHOWS OFF ITS HARDWARE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF AGENTIC AI WORKLOADS

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Intel laid out three architectures spanning data center to endpoint AI: the 256-core Diamond Rapids Xeon, Crescent Island inference GPU, and already-shipping Wildcat Lake client SoC. The latter's 17-TOPS NPU notably falls short of Microsoft's 40+ TOPS Copilot+ requirement, while Diamond Rapids isn't expected until 2027.