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On its third-quarter 2026 earnings call, held on Nov. 12, 2026, Cerebras Systems (NASDAQ:CBRS) announced that it expects to triple revenue in 2027. Expanding hardware sales and artificial intelligence cloud token generation, which represents processed data units in machine learning models, are scaling up rapidly. Three takeaways from the call stand out for long-term investors.
Large-scale cloud providers, known as hyperscalers, are contracting with the company to expand high-speed artificial intelligence inference options. Providing both direct server hardware installations and cloud service tokens allows the business to scale capital efficiently as customer data center availability opens up.
With the latest being our announcement that today, we signed an important cloud deal with Microsoft, which along with the AWS and Oracle announcements previously made brings us to 3 hyperscalers who chose to leverage Cerebras platform as part of their inference strategy.-- Andrew Feldman, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and President
Traditional artificial intelligence processors rely heavily on high-bandwidth memory (HBM), a specialized memory technology currently facing industrywide supply shortages and price inflation. Building custom wafer-scale processors without third-party memory chips helps the company avoid these supply bottlenecks and keep component costs low.
Unlike other competitors, we do not use HBM memory. We believe memory shortages and the price increases associated with them will continue through 2028, raising competitors' costs and limiting supply. Industrywide memory challenges create an opportunity for Cerebras.-- Andrew Feldman, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and President
Physical data center construction delays related to land, power, and building shells pushed initial capacity deliveries for the key customer OpenAI behind schedule. Management calculated potential delay credits into remaining performance obligations (RPO), which measures contracted revenue not yet recognized, while projecting full schedule recovery by late 2027.
Based on our team executing frequent in-person inspections of each site, we now project we will be back on schedule by the second half of 2027, and this should reduce future delay credit risk.-- Bob Komin, Chief Financial Officer
Core revenue momentum is accelerating as hardware shipments expand alongside customer cloud deployment, and management isn't hiding its enthusiasm about hitting profitability milestones ahead of expectations. Direct control over wafer-scale chip manufacturing and international data center expansion give the business a clear cost advantage over traditional hardware vendors. Management is focusing strategically on data center site execution, international expansion, and disaggregated inference deployment to expand gross margins toward its long-term 60% target.
Our flexible model of selling both hardware and cloud is driving strong growth in revenue and improvements in gross margin that began a quarter earlier than expected.-- Bob Komin, Chief Financial Officer
Deploying custom processors directly across hyperscaler clouds and first-party data centers positions the company to capture long-term demand regardless of which artificial intelligence software models dominate the market.
Our goal is to position ourselves so that whatever drives the industry, Cerebras wins.-- Andrew Feldman, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and President
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