Chipzilla has been stumbling through the AI craze, arriving late and watching rivals clean up while its offerings mostly gathered dust. Aside from a handful of cloud service providers giving Gaudi a test drive, the lineup has struggled to get any real traction. Dell’s announcement marks one of the first times a major vendor has stuck Gaudi 3 inside a mainstream product.

The XE7740 server has eight PCIe accelerators and supports a full loadout of 8x Gaudi 3 chips with a 1:1 networking interface. Dell claims this makes for smooth integration inside data centres, with support for current-gen models including Llama4, Llama3, Deepseek, Phi4, Qwen3, and Falcon3.

Performance numbers were conspicuously absent, but Dell rattled off a list of supposed advantages for using Gaudi 3. These include “cost efficiency” with a supposedly better price-to-performance ratio, “scalability” with modular configurations and optional bridging, and “compatibility” with strict power and cooling setups, which should mean fewer headaches for operators trying to wedge the servers into existing racks.

Despite the Dell's optimism, Intel's AI story remains patchy. The Falcon Shores project has already been scrapped, and its replacement, Jaguar Shores, is being hyped as the company’s first proper rack-scale solution. Until that turns up, Gaudi 3 looks like an exercise in keeping Intel’s AI division on life support while competitors continue to feast on the AI gold rush.