China takes US crown for world’s fastest supercomputer
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China’s LineShine overtakes US-based El Capitan as most powerful supercomputer, according to the TOP500 list.
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China’s fully domestically developed “LineShine” supercomputer ranked first on the global TOP500 list with a sustained double-precision performance of 2.19EFlops (10¹⁸ floating-point operations per second), according to the ISC 2026 conference held in Hamburg, Germany, on… pic.twitter.com/TREYRiVnAz
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) June 23, 2026
Surprise: Chinese LineShine supercomputer takes the #1 spot on the #Top500 and #HPCG lists!
— Torsten Hoefler 🇨🇭 (@thoefler) June 23, 2026
First time since a while that spot is taken by a homogeneous CPU machine. So is heterogeneity here to stay?
CPUs with HBM and tensor cores (e.g., ARM SME). Congrats Yutong and folks. pic.twitter.com/Fv4fZSButd
Now the Top500 and other rankings announcement. Chinese LineShine system is # 1 (also in HPCG). China’s back! pic.twitter.com/l29q7y2R8d
— Satoshi Matsuoka (@ProfMatsuoka) June 23, 2026