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Intel introduces Inference Microservices for LLM serving on Xeon

Intel announced container-based Inference Microservices software for serving large language models on Intel Xeon processors. Each container serves one model behind an OpenAI-compatible API and detects its host processor at startup to select Intel’s validated profile for that model and hardware.

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The first release runs vLLM at BF16 on 4th-, 5th- and 6th-generation Xeon processors; Intel suggests 32 GB of RAM. The company says profiles configure precision, core scheduling and memory layout and are based on its own hardware testing.

Intel says the software runs locally, without a hosted endpoint or API key, and applications can use the standard interface by changing the base URL. GPU support, other engines, Helm charts and a Kubernetes operator are future plans, not capabilities of this release.

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Intel released LLM inference software using per-model tuned containers on Xeon processors.

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    Intel introduces Inference Microservices for LLM serving on Xeon

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