China takes the supercomputer crown without US chips
A supercomputer in Shenzhen just topped the world rankings for the first time since 2017. The headline is the speed. The real story is the silicon: it runs without a single chip from Nvidia, AMD or Intel.
China has taken back the supercomputing crown. On Tuesday, organisers declared a machine called LineShine the world’s fastest at the ISC conference in Hamburg. The result ended a long American run at the top of the closely watched TOP500 list.
LineShine, housed at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, hit 2.198 exaflops on the standard benchmark. That is more than 20% faster than El Capitan. The US Department of Energy machine had led since November 2024 and helps maintain the American nuclear stockpile.
LineShine is the first Chinese system at number one in nearly a decade.
The speed is striking. The way China got there is the point. LineShine was built entirely without...
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