China's LineShine supercomputer has claimed the top spot in the global Top500 rankings, marking the first Chinese victory since 2017 in technological supremacy.
LineShine is powered by custom chips that house nearly 14 million processing cores
Jun 24, 2026
09:42 am
What's the storyChina's LineShine supercomputer has been officially recognized as the world's fastest machine, surpassing its US counterpart, El Capitan.
The ranking was released by Top500, a project that ranks the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world.
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China’s LineShine debuts at number one in Top500 – a list sometimes viewed as a national measure of global tech prowess
Built in Shenzhen, it regained the world’s fastest supercomputer crown for China since Sunway TaihuLight’s achievement in 2017.
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