# Andrew Feldman

Co-founder and CEO, Cerebras Systems. TIME100 AI 2026, Innovators. His company builds a dinner-plate-sized AI chip, about 57 times the size of a GPU and the largest chip ever made. ([time.com](https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2024/7012720/andrew-feldman/))

- Born: Palo Alto, California, US ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Feldman_(businessman)))
- Education: MBA, Stanford University, 1997; BA, Economics and political science, Stanford University, 1991 ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Feldman_(businessman)))
- Career: Cerebras Systems (Co-founder and CEO, 2015 to now); AMD (Corporate Vice President and General Manager, 2012–2014); SeaMicro (Co-founder and CEO, 2007–2012); Force10 Networks (Vice President, Product Management, Marketing and Business Development, 2003–2006); Riverstone Networks (Vice President, Marketing and Corporate Development, 2000–2003); Cabletron (Senior Director of Marketing, 1998–2000); Molecular Applications Group (Vice President, Sales and Marketing, 1991–1993) ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Feldman_(businessman)), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewdfeldman))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/andrew-feldman/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/andrew-feldman

- Cerebras's Wafer Scale Engine is a dinner-plate-sized chip about 57 times the size of a GPU, the largest chip ever made. ([time.com](https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2024/7012720/andrew-feldman/))
- The Computer History Museum gave the chip a permanent display, calling it the first wafer-scale integration in computing's 70-year history. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Feldman_(businessman)))
- All four of his Cerebras co-founders had worked with him at SeaMicro, the server startup he sold to AMD in 2012. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Feldman_(businessman)))
- In 2017 he flew to Taipei to ask TSMC to bet on a chip that didn't exist yet, when Cerebras had 30 people and no revenue. ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrewdfeldman_silicon-valley-often-talks-about-long-term-activity-7511412498122620929-EMKy))
- Cerebras's May 2026 IPO raised $5.55 billion, and its shares rose about 68% on the first day of trading. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Feldman_(businessman)))
- On taking on Nvidia: "I'm a professional David in the battle of Goliath." ([time.com](https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2024/7012720/andrew-feldman/))