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SambaNova and Intel Announce Blueprint for Heterogeneous Inference: GPUs for Prefill, SambaNova RDUs for Decode, and Intel® Xeon® 6 CPUs for Agentic Tools
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 08, 2026--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
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