Intel, based in Santa Clara, California, designs the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator and is developing Crescent Island, a data centre GPU for AI inference with customer sampling planned for the second half of 2026.
At a glance
| Price from | Custom |
| Best for | Enterprises seeking lower-cost inference hardware |
From Intel's own website.
What stands out
- Large manufacturing and sales reach
- Cost-focused inference parts
Worth knowing
- Small share of AI accelerator sales
- AI roadmap has been reset before
How it ranks
Intel is ranked 8th of 10 in Best AI Chip Companies (Lister Score 88.1).
#8 in Best AI Chip Companies · Lister Score 88.1
Intel unveiled the Crescent Island inference GPU, with 160GB of LPDDR5X memory, at the OCP Global Summit in October 2025..
| Rank | Best AI Chip Companies | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nvidia | 97.4 |
| 2 | AMD | 95.9 |
| 3 | Google (TPU) | 94.7 |
| 4 | Broadcom | 93.5 |
| 5 | Amazon Web Services (Trainium) | 92.2 |
| 6 | Huawei (Ascend) | 90.8 |
| 7 | Cerebras | 89.5 |
| 8 | Intel | 88.1 |
| 9 | Qualcomm | 86.6 |
| 10 | Tenstorrent | 85.2 |
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