Intel and pals cram 36,864 CPU cores into a 100kW rack while chasing the agentic AI dragon
Meanwhile, Intel and SambaNova's disaggregated inference blueprint lands its first customer
COMPUTEX 2026 Intel is working with Foxconn and other infrastructure providers to develop rack-scale reference designs based on the chipmaker’s Xeon processors.
Announced during Intel’s Computex keynote on Tuesday, these blueprints aim to provide greater CPU compute densities for running AI agents at scale.
While AI models predominantly run on GPUs and other AI accelerators, the agent harnesses, like OpenClaw, which are used to connect them to tools, terminal shells, code interpreters, and other APIs, still run on CPUs.
“Our customers are asking us to think at the system level to help them serve real agentic workloads at scale,” Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan said.
On stage, Tan revealed two examples of these blueprints. One is aimed at latency-sensitive agentic workloads and another designed for maximum density.
Both designs support up to 128 of either Intel’s...
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