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# Using TEI Container with Intel® Hardware

This guide explains how to build and deploy `text-embeddings-inference` containers optimized for Intel® hardware, including CPUs, XPUs, and HPUs.

## CPU

### Build Docker Image (CPU)

To build a container optimized for Intel® CPUs, run the following command:

```shell
platform="cpu"

docker build . -f Dockerfile-intel --build-arg PLATFORM=$platform -t tei_cpu_ipex
```

### Deploy Docker Container (CPU)

To deploy your model on an Intel® CPU, use the following command:

```shell
model='Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B'
volume=$PWD/data

docker run -p 8080:80 -v $volume:/data tei_cpu_ipex --model-id $model
```

## XPU

### Build Docker Image (XPU)

To build a container optimized for Intel® XPUs, run the following command:

```shell
platform="xpu"

docker build . -f Dockerfile-intel --build-arg PLATFORM=$platform -t tei_xpu_ipex
```

### Deploy Docker Container (XPU)

To deploy your model on an Intel® XPU, use the following command:

```shell
model='Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B'
volume=$PWD/data

docker run -p 8080:80 -v $volume:/data --device=/dev/dri -v /dev/dri/by-path:/dev/dri/by-path tei_xpu_ipex --model-id $model --dtype float16
```

## HPU

> [!WARNING]
> TEI is supported only on Gaudi 2 and Gaudi 3. Gaudi 1 is **not** supported.

### Build Docker Image (HPU)

To build a container optimized for Intel® HPUs (Gaudi), run the following command:

```shell
platform="hpu"

docker build . -f Dockerfile-intel --build-arg PLATFORM=$platform -t tei_hpu
```

### Deploy Docker Container (HPU)

To deploy your model on an Intel® HPU (Gaudi), use the following command:

```shell
model='Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B'
volume=$PWD/data

docker run -p 8080:80 -v $volume:/data --runtime=habana -e HABANA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all -e MAX_WARMUP_SEQUENCE_LENGTH=512 tei_hpu --model-id $model --dtype bfloat16
```

## Prebuilt Docker Images

For convenience, prebuilt Docker images are available on GitHub Container Registry (GHCR). You can pull these images directly without the need to build them manually:

### Prebuilt CPU

To use the prebuilt image optimized for Intel® CPUs, run:

```shell
docker pull ghcr.io/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference:cpu-ipex-latest
```

### Prebuilt XPU

To use the prebuilt image optimized for Intel® XPUs, run:

```shell
docker pull ghcr.io/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference:xpu-ipex-latest
```

### Prebuilt HPU

> [!WARNING]
> TEI is supported only on Gaudi 2 and Gaudi 3. Gaudi 1 is **not** supported.

To use the prebuilt image optimized for Intel® HPUs (Gaudi), run:

```shell
docker pull ghcr.io/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference:hpu-latest
```