{"id":663289,"date":"2026-06-28T20:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T20:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/663289\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T20:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T20:42:10","slug":"china-claims-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/663289\/","title":{"rendered":"China claims the world\u2019s fastest supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Despite trade restrictions, China has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/6\/20\/11975356\/chinese-supercomputer-worlds-fastes-taihulight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reclaimed<\/a> the title of the world\u2019s fastest supercomputer for the first time since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/circuitbreaker\/2018\/6\/12\/17453918\/ibm-summit-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-america-department-of-energy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2018<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/china-defies-us-restrictions-and-builds-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LineShine<\/a> has pushed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/807483\/amd-department-of-energy-announce-1-billion-ai-supercomputer-partnership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">El Capitan<\/a> out of number one on the <a href=\"https:\/\/top500.org\/lists\/top500\/2026\/06\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TOP500<\/a> ranking. That\u2019s despite strict limits on what high-powered computing components can be sold to China by US firms, which dominate the list, with America holding three of the top five spots. LineShine doesn\u2019t even use any GPUs, which are typically the backbone of modern supercomputers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">While reaching the peak of the Top500 carries obvious bragging rights, it also serves as a message from the Chinese government to the US. The Trump administration has sought to limit China\u2019s access to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/840557\/nvidia-h200-ai-chips-china-exports-us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> chips<\/a> from firms like<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/815806\/senate-resolution-trump-us-ai-technology-china\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> NVIDIA<\/a> and placed steep<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/809832\/trump-trims-china-tariffs-settles-rare-earth-dispute\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> tariffs<\/a> on products going in and out of the country. China responded by building around more readily available and generalized CPUs. LineShine uses roughly 45,000 LX2 processors, each with 304 cores running at 1.55GHz, connected over a special high-speed, low-latency network called LingQi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">LineShine is the first supercomputer to cross the 2,000 exaflop barrier and is 20 percent faster than the number-two system, El Capitan, on the Top500 list. However, it also uses 42.2 megawatts, dramatically higher and less efficient than El Capitan\u2019s 29.7 megawatts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite trade restrictions, China has reclaimed the title of the world\u2019s fastest supercomputer for the first time since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,50,90,227,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-663289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-news","tag-science","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}