Intel’s Crescent Island AI Server GPU Gets a Name and Specs: Meet the Intel GPU D-Series

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Intel today has unveiled its official performance specifications and branding for its upcoming "Crescent Island" data center (a building full of computers that runs online services) AI inference cards. With two of Ponte’s successors canceled over the last few years – Rialto Bridge in 2023 and then Falcon Shores in 2025 – Intel announced Crescent Island at least year’s OCP Global Summit as an interim product to target the AI inference market with a heavily cost and power-optimized part. Intel is a semiconductor and electrical company based in Santa Clara.

Going under the name Intel GPU D-Series, the D270 will offer 1.3 PLFOPs of dense FP8 and 1.5TB/second of memory bandwidth The post Intel’s Crescent Island AI Server GPU Gets a Name and Specs: Meet the Intel GPU D-Series appeared first on ServeTheHome . After outlining the chip’s architecture back at Hot Chips 2026, the company is offering a short update on the product today, outlining some of the chip’s final performance specifications along with giving the cards based on it a proper name.

Going forward, Crescent Island will be sold as part of Intel’s GPU D-Series. Speeds and Feeds: Crescent Island Nears Release As a brief refresher, Crescent Intel’s is first commercial AI-focused data center GPU since Ponte Vecchio in 2021. The resulting chip is not meant to be on the same performance level as flagship chips such as NVIDIA’s Blackwell Ultra or AMD’s MI455X, but then it will be a lot smaller and cheaper as well.