SambaNova today announced the next phase of its collaboration with Intel: a heterogeneous hardware solution that combines GPUs for prefill, Intel Xeon 6 processors as both host and "action" CPUs, and SambaNova RDUs for decode to deliver premium inference for the most demanding Agentic AI applications. The design will be made available in H2 2026 to enterprises, cloud providers, and sovereign AI programs that want to run coding agents and other agentic workloads at scale.

"Agentic AI is moving into production - and the winning pattern we're seeing is GPUs to start the job, Intel Xeon 6 to run it, and SambaNova RDUs to finish it fast," said Rodrigo Liang, CEO and co‑founder of SambaNova Systems. "Together with Intel, we're giving customers a blueprint they can deploy in existing air‑cooled data centers, with broad x86 coverage for the coding agents and tools they already use today."
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