Intel Tech Tour 2025 in Arizona was primarily focused on disclosures around [1]Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest and [2]Panther Lake / Xe3 but during the opening keynote was also teasing a yet-to-be-announced inference-optimized GPU.

On Intel's AI Execution Roadmap during the Intel Tech Tour keynote they shared a new inference-optimized GPU:

"Inference-optimized GPU with enhanced memory, bandwidth and enterprise-level inference"

It will be very interesting to see what this new inference-optimized GPU is... From the open-source Linux driver activity, there hasn't been any recent new indicators surfacing of some additional hardware on the horizon. My guess would just be an inference-optimized product based on the [3]BMG-G31 Battlemage GPU, a.k.a. "B770" type product. It's too early for any Xe3 / Celestial dGPU product as so far in that context we have only seen Linux driver patches pertaining to Xe3 integrated graphics with Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake platforms.

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Whatever the case this new inference-optimized enterprise-level GPU should fit in nicely given their ongoing [5]Project Battlematrix Linux driver efforts for multi-GPU compute, SR-IOV support, etc.

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We are eager to learn more soon about this new Intel GPU offering. Intel is expected to reveal more at the OCP Global Summit coming up next week in San Jose.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-6-plus

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-panther-lake

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/search/BMG-G31

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=intel-arizona-2025&image=intel_ai_1_lrg

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Project+Battlematrix

[6] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=intel-arizona-2025&image=intel_ai_2_lrg