Cerebras wafer-scale AI processor

Available only in the company’s supercomputer.

July 31, 2025

Jon Peddie

SeaMicro, founded in 2007 and acquired by AMD in 2012, was shut down in 2015 when its dense server market failed to grow. Former SeaMicro employees immediately founded Cerebras Systems, focusing on AI hardware. Cerebras developed three generations of Wafer-Scale Engines (WSE), with the latest WSE-3 containing 4 trillion transistors and 900,000 cores. Their CS-3 systems offer significantly faster AI inference than Nvidia’s H100 GPUs, costing $1 million to $3 million-plus per server. TIME recognized WSE-3 as a 2024 Best Invention. SeaMicro, Inc. was founded in 2007 and acquired by AMD in 2012. As a subsidiary of AMD, it specialized in the

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