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Every chipmaker in this cohort dices a wafer into individual dies. Cerebras builds one processor out of an entire, uncut wafer — an idea the rest of the industry tried and abandoned decades ago.
A chip company most people had never heard of raised $5.55 billion and closed its first trading day up 68%. Here's the quick version of what just happened.
Not the chip. Not the training cluster. Ayar Labs focuses on one narrow, unglamorous problem — getting light on and off a chip efficiently — and is betting that narrowness is exactly what makes the bet work.
Almost every company in this cohort's accelerator and startup tracks is American, Korean, or Chinese. Europe's near-total absence from that list is itself a story — and Axelera AI is one of the few companies trying to close the gap.