Intel begins customer sampling of D-Series GPUs, expands AI infrastructure

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The post Intel begins customer sampling of D-Series GPUs (a chip built for many calculations at once, used for graphics and AI), expands AI infrastructure appeared first on Crypto Briefing . 12, 2026 Intel has started putting its new D-Series data center (a building full of computers that runs online services) GPUs into customers’ hands for testing. Intel is a semiconductor and electrical company based in Santa Clara.

The chips mark the company’s latest attempt to win a meaningful slice of the AI hardware market. The pitch is not about building the biggest, fastest training monster on the block.

Intel is aiming at AI inference, the part of the job where trained models actually answer questions. What Intel is shipping The D-Series was previously known by its codename, Crescent Island.

It is built on Intel’s Xe3P architecture. Intel is positioning it for AI inference (running a trained model to get an answer, rather than training it) and agentic (AI that carries out multi-step tasks rather than answering one question) workloads, meaning AI systems that take multi-step actions instead of answering a single prompt and stopping.

On paper, the D270 delivers a peak compute of approximately 1.3 PFLOPs at FP8 precision. FP8 is a lower-precision number format that trades a bit of numerical detail for much faster math. That performance comes with a thermal design power of 350W.