Intel's long-lost data center prototype 'Arctic Sound' Xe-HP multi-tile GPU surfaces in new engineering sample — Company's cancelled AI processor features 32GB of HBM2E

Raja Koduri shows Intel Xe HP 4-tile GPU.

Back in 2020, Intel first showed off its multi-tile data center GPU codenamed "Arctic Sound," part of the Xe-HP (High Performance) family. It was supposed to represent one part of to be the company's grand entry into the AI GPU market. Arctic Sound was ultimately limited to internal samples because it was cancelled as a commercial product. Today, one of those original engineering samples seems to have landed in the hands of Chips By Layers on X, who's pictured it in all its glory.

Well that wasn't what I ordered, I wanted PonteVecchio. Turns out some of the Arctic Sound HP tiled chips made it into engineering samples that got into the wild. Never thought I'd see one of these after they got memory holed. pic.twitter.com/31HdBSHWTgJune 14, 2026