Intel's Crescent Island AI accelerator officially powers new GPU D-Series products
Intel's Crescent Island AI inference accelerator will come to market as the GPU D-Series family, promising 1.3 PFLOPS of FP8 compute alongside up to 480 GB of LPDDR5X delivering 1.5 TB/s of memory bandwidth.
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At OCP 2026 today, Intel has given Crescent Island a proper name: the Intel GPU D-Series. For the first time, the company also shared a theoretical peak performance target for the chip: 1.3 PFLOPS of FP8. It also disclosed the final memory bandwidth to expect from these AI inference accelerators: 1.5 TB/s. This new information adds to the slow drip of disclosures Intel has made about Crescent Island throughout 2026.
We already knew that Crescent Island is the first chip to be built on Intel's Xe3P graphics architecture (or massively parallel computing architecture, really, as the chip lacks…
