A ScaleX supernode product is displayed at the Sugon booth during the International Supercomputing Conference 2026 in Hamburg, Germany, June 23, 2026.
China's domestically developed LineShine supercomputer has become the world's fastest supercomputer, returning the country to the top spot in global supercomputing for the first time in nine years.
Announced at the ISC 2026 conference in Hamburg, Germany, LineShine achieved a sustained performance of 2.198 exaflops, becoming the first supercomputer to surpass two exaflops of sustained computing power.
Developed at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, LineShine is designed to combine scientific computing and artificial intelligence on a single platform. As AI becomes increasingly important in scientific research, supercomputers are evolving from tools for running simulations into infrastructure for data-intensive discovery.
At the heart of the system are China's self-developed LX2 processors, which support both traditional computing and AI workloads. The chips incorporate China's first domestically developed high-bandwidth memory, enabling data to move about 10 times faster than in conventional CPUs.
