Founder Profile
Gary Lauterbach
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Gary Lauterbach?
Gary Lauterbach is a founder of Cerebras Systems Inc., which was founded in 2015 with Andrew Feldman, Sean Lie, Michael James and Jean-Philippe Fricker.
- Company founded
- Cerebras Systems Inc.
- Founded
- 2015
- Co-founders
- Andrew Feldman, Sean Lie, Michael James and Jean-Philippe Fricker
Background
Chief Architect at SeaMicro and veteran microprocessor designer at Sun Microsystems.
Founding Story
Gary Lauterbach co-founded Cerebras Systems. Widely considered one of the most brilliant silicon architects in the world, he solved the massive, decades-old physical challenges of wafer-scale integration—specifically figuring out how to bypass inevitable manufacturing defects and deliver power across a massive, unbroken 8.5-by-8.5 inch square of silicon. Gary Lauterbach was born in 1961.
Sources
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- CNBC - Cerebras files to go public (2025 financials, OpenAI deal, customer mix) (Cerebras Systems Inc.)
- CNBC - Cerebras (CBRS) starts trading on Nasdaq after IPO (Cerebras Systems Inc.)