Enabling AI’s potential through wafer-scale integration

Andrew Feldman (Cerebras Systems)

9:55am–10:10am Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Location: Hall 2

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Cerebras Systems is a team of pioneering computer architects, computer scientists, deep learning researchers, and engineers of all types. We have come together to build a new class of computer to accelerate artificial intelligence work by three orders of magnitude beyond the current state of the art. The first announced element of the Cerebras solution is the Wafer Scale Engine (WSE). The WSE is the largest chip ever built. It contains 1.2 trillion transistors and covers more than 46,225 square millimeters of silicon. In this talk, we will share some of the details of WSE and discuss its impact on the industry.

Andrew Feldman

Cerebras Systems

Andrew Feldman is founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, a startup dedicated to accelerating Artificial intelligence (AI) compute. Cerebras is a team of pioneering computer architects, computer scientists, deep learning researchers, and engineers of all types who have come together to build a new class of computer-optimized for AI work. Prior to Cerebras, Andrew was a founder and CEO of SeaMicro. SeaMicro, acquired by AMD for $355 million, was the pioneer in energy efficient computation. SeaMicro invented the microserver category and changed the trajectory of the server industry by creating a new class of the high density, energy-efficient servers. Prior to co-founding SeaMicro, Andrew was Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Force10 Networks (acquired by Dell for $800 Million) and before that was Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Corporate Development for Riverstone Networks (NASDAQ: RSTN) from inception through IPO.

Andrew is passionate about building teams that solve industry-transforming problems. He is a sought after advisor to startups, and currently serves on the board of directors at Natron Energy and on the advisory board of more than a dozen startups. Andrew is a frequent keynote speaker and guest lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from Stanford University.