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Andrew Feldman

Andrew Feldman co-founded Cerebras and has led it as CEO since April 2016. The company builds wafer-scale computer systems for AI training and inference. His career moved through marketing and product roles at Riverstone Networks and Force10, SeaMicro’s dense microservers, and AMD’s server business. Cerebras launched its CS-1 around the Wafer Scale Engine in 2019, then introduced the WSE-3 and CS-3 in 2024 and applied the systems to Llama inference.

Now at
Cerebras Systems
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Timeline

  1. 2000–2006

    Marketing network companies

    He holds a B.A. and an M.B.A. from Stanford. At Riverstone Networks, he led corporate marketing and corporate development through its 2001 IPO, then served as vice president of marketing and product management at Force10 Networks through 2006.

  2. 2007–2014

    SeaMicro and AMD

    In 2007, he co-founded SeaMicro with Gary Lauterbach and led the dense microserver company as CEO. AMD acquired SeaMicro in 2012; Feldman served as AMD’s corporate vice president and general manager through June 2014.

  3. Since April 2016

    A company built for AI

    He co-founded Cerebras and has led it as CEO since April 2016. The company builds wafer-scale computer systems for AI training and inference.

  4. 2019

    A system built around a wafer

    Cerebras launched its CS-1 as a complete data-center system for AI workflows, with the Wafer Scale Engine as its processor. Feldman said the team had spoken with more than 100 customers while designing the system and software.

  5. March 2024

    A third generation

    Cerebras introduced WSE-3 and built the CS-3 platform around the third-generation wafer-scale processor. Feldman described the performance advance as a Moore’s Law step.

  6. August 2024

    Fast answers for Llama

    Cerebras launched its first inference offering on WSE-3 chips and CS-3 systems, including Llama 3.1 8B and 70B models. Feldman said fast responses could enable agentic applications and let language models iterate on answers.

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  5. The Cerebras CS-1 computes deep learning AI problems by being bigger, bigger, and bigger than any other chip techcrunch.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. Nvidia rival Cerebras says it's revived Moore's Law with third-gen waferscale chips theregister.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. Cerebras gives waferscale chips inferencing twist, claims 1,800 token per sec generation rates theregister.com. Checked 14 October 2026.