BUZZ-Chipmaker Cerebras skyrockets in cracking debut after $5.55 bln IPO
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** Cerebras CBRS.O shares soar as much as 108.8% in hotly anticipated New York debut
** Stock opened at $350, compared with $185 offer price
** Sunnyvale, California-based CBRS sold 30 million shares, well above latest marketed range of $150-$160 apiece to raise $5.55 billion in what was 2026's largest U.S. IPO
** The chipmaker previously boosted price range and number of shares after IPO demand exceeded supply by over 20 times, Reuters reported
** The firm is known for its wafer-scale engine chips, designed to speed up the training and inference of large AI models and compete with products from Nvidia and other AI chip firms
** Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Barclays, and UBS Investment Bank are the lead book-running managers
