Intel X e Next
A new Intel roadmap slide shared by vice president Anil Nanduri shows a post-Xe3P step labeled “Xe Next.” The slide places “Xe Next” after Xe3P, and positions it as the next stage of Intel’s data center GPU IP roadmap, following the Xe3P-based inference GPU code-named Crescent Island.
Intel has already outlined what Xe3P means in product terms. In its October 2025 announcement, Intel said Crescent Island is built on the Xe3P microarchitecture and targets inference workloads in air-cooled enterprise servers. Intel also confirmed 160GB of LPDDR5X memory, and said customer sampling is expected in the second half of 2026.
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Xe3 Next – Jaguar Shores
Intel’s describes Jaguar Shores as the company’s next AI accelerator focus. Intel already confirmed that Falcon Shores will be used as an internal test chip rather than released to market. The company named Jaguar Shores its first generally programmable GPU AI accelerator offering to customers.
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Intel’s data center GPU roadmap has shifted several times. In 2023, Intel published an update that discontinued Rialto Bridge and Lancaster Sound, which it described as incremental follow-ons, and adjusted its cadence while shifting focus to later designs.
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Intel has also used “Xe Next” as a placeholder label before. The company’s Architecture Day 2021 deck showed “Xe Next Architecture” as the step after Xe3 (Celestial). It was actually tied to a product codenamed “Druid”, but consumer and data-center roadmaps do not appear to be closely related. However, next-in-line Xe3p architecture is already known to be coming to both the data center and the consumer market, so perhaps Druid is not far off Jaguar Shores.
Source: Intel via TechPowerUP
