Intel's mysterious new datacenter GPU is what Nvidia's Rubin CPX nearly was

COMPUTEX 2026 Intel offered new insights into its next-gen datacenter GPU codenamed Crescent Island. Alongside supporting enterprise AI deployments, the GPU could fill the void left by Nvidia's Rubin CPX GPUs, which were seemingly shelved late last year following its acquisition of Groq. As datacenter GPUs go, Intel's Crescent Island is certainly an odd duck. It'll ship in a PCIe form factor when most high-end GPUs are now using socketed designs. It also won't use HBM or even GDDR memory. Instea