Fueling the heightened outlook, third-quarter adjusted sales climbed 70 percent to $230.9 million, easily topping analyst expectations compiled by LSEG. Growth was anchored by the cloud and services segment, which more than tripled its revenue to reach $144.9 million. To maintain this momentum against major cloud providers, the company is increasing manufacturing of its flagship chips, which pack trillions of transistors on a single component. Meanwhile, quarterly net losses expanded to 67 cents per share compared to 41 cents per share during the same period last year.
Key points
Surging demand for AI training and chatbot processing capacity is driving significant top…: Surging demand for AI training and chatbot processing capacity is driving significant top-line expansion for Cerebras.
Operating costs linked to scaling chip production contributed to a wider net loss per sha…: Operating costs linked to scaling chip production contributed to a wider net loss per share in the third quarter.
The company positions its massive single-wafer chips as a more efficient alternative to l…: The company positions its massive single-wafer chips as a more efficient alternative to large clusters of standard graphics processors.
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Nov 12 : Cerebras Systems raised its annual revenue forecast on Thursday, buoyed by surging demand for AI computing capacity as it battles Nvidia and cloud giants.
Shares of the company were up 11 per cent in extended trading.
The AI boom has spurred demand for chips used to train models and power inference, the data crunching that occurs when a user queries a chatbot, benefiting chip and cloud companies such as Cerebras.
The Sunnyvale, California-based company is racing to expand chip volumes to capture that demand and support a $20 billion multi-year agreement to provide computing power for OpenAI.
Cerebras now expects 2026 adjusted revenue of $940 million to $960 million, up from its previous expectations of $880 million to $890 million.
Its core cloud and services revenue, which reflects the OpenAI deal, more than tripled to $144.9 million for the third quarter.
Cerebras' flagship wafer-scale engine is a single chip the size of a dinner plate containing trillions of transistors, a design that it says is more efficient than connecting thousands of smaller graphics processors.
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