Cerebras slips on broader chip weakness a day after strong Nasdaq debut

Cerebras Systems

15/05/2026 15:37

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** Shares of chip designer Cerebras Systems CBRS.O down 4.3% at $297.77, a day after Nasdaq debut

** Stock opens at $350 vs IPO price of $185, valuing chip designer at roughly $106.75 bln on a fully diluted basis

** Pullback comes as broader chip stocks slide, with the Philadelphia SE Semiconductor Index .SOX down 2.7%

** Sunnyvale, California-based company raises $5.55 bln in its U.S. IPO, the largest listing so far this year

** CBRS designs wafer-scale chips aimed at accelerating AI workloads, packing hundreds of thousands of compute cores onto a single processor

** Sources told Reuters that the offering had drawn orders for more than 20 times the number of shares available

** CBRS has secured Amazon AMZN.O and OpenAI, two of the biggest builders of AI infrastructure in the world, as customers

 (Reporting by Tharuniyaa Lakshmi in Bengaluru)

 ((tharuniyaa@thomsonreuters.com))