Cerebras Appoints Tom Lantzsch to Board of Directors

Former Intel and ARM executive brings deep expertise across AI, semiconductor technology, and business growth

Cerebras Systems Appoints Former Intel Executive Tom Lantzsch to Board of Directors (Photo Credit: Cerebras Systems)

Press Release – November 22, 2024 – SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Cerebras Systems, the pioneer in accelerating generative AI, today announced the appointment of Thomas (Tom) Lantzsch as a new independent board member. Lantzsch is a seasoned technology executive with extensive experience in scaling AI-driven businesses and driving transformational growth in the technology sector.

“Cerebras is uniquely positioned to transform the pace and innovation of AI workloads, and I look forward to contributing to its continued success as it defines the future of computing.” Post this

With a distinguished 40-year career spanning senior business leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies and early-stage startups, Lantzsch most recently served as senior vice president and general manager of the Internet of Things (IoT) Group at Intel^® Corporation. In that role he led the worldwide organization responsible for Intel architecture computing solutions across IoT market segments, including manufacturing, industrial, retail, transportation, smart buildings and homes, and aerospace.

“We are honored to welcome Tom to the Cerebras board of directors,” said Andrew Feldman, CEO and Co-Founder, Cerebras. “His deep expertise in scaling innovative semiconductor companies will enable us to make significant advancements in growing Cerebras’ AI compute leadership across industries and sectors.”

Prior to his tenure at Intel, Lantzsch spent ten years at ARM Holdings PLC, culminating in his role as executive vice president of strategy. He also previously served as chief executive officer of StarCore LLC and a non-executive director of Spirent Communications PLC. Earlier in his career, he spent 13 years with Motorola Inc., holding vice president roles in sales, marketing, and operations in four countries and started his career at Texas Instruments Inc. Lantzsch has served as a member of the board of directors of Canatu Oyj, a carbon nanomaterial developer company, since November 2023. He holds an M.S. in Finance from the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University.

“I am excited to join the Cerebras team and help guide this visionary company as it revolutionizes AI compute,” said Lantzsch. “Cerebras is uniquely positioned to transform the pace and innovation of AI workloads, and I look forward to contributing to its continued success as it defines the future of computing.”

To learn more, please visit www.cerebras.ai.

About Cerebras Systems

Cerebras Systems is a team of pioneering computer architects, computer scientists, deep learning researchers, and engineers of all types. We have come together to accelerate generative AI by building from the ground up a new class of AI supercomputer. Our flagship product, the CS-3 system, is powered by the world’s largest and fastest commercially available AI processor, our Wafer-Scale Engine-3. CS-3s are quickly and easily clustered together to make the largest AI supercomputers in the world, and make placing models on the supercomputers dead simple by avoiding the complexity of distributed computing. Cerebras Inference delivers breakthrough inference speeds, empowering customers to create cutting-edge AI applications. Leading corporations, research institutions, and governments use Cerebras solutions for the development of pathbreaking proprietary models, and to train open-source models with millions of downloads. Cerebras solutions are available through the Cerebras Cloud and on premise. For further information, visit www.cerebras.ai or follow us on LinkedIn or X.