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By Adrian Parham Published: Jun 02 2026, 10:00 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard Share on Pocket Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan delivers the Intel keynote at Computex 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan INTEL CORPORATION Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan used Tuesday's Computex 2026 keynote in Taipei to deliver the most detailed public accounting yet of Crescent Island,

Intel has unveiled Crescent Island, a data center GPU built specifically for AI inference — the stage where a trained model answers real user queries. It uses LPDDR5X memory instead of the expensive, supply-constrained HBM found in Nvidia's Blackwell chips. At 350W, it runs on standard air cooling, which matters directly to any operator who has been priced out of liquid-cooled infrastructure. Aft