{"id":239531,"date":"2026-06-24T06:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/chinese-supercomputer-displaces-us-machines-as-worlds-fastest-for-first-time-since-2017"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:23:14","slug":"chinese-supercomputer-displaces-us-machines-as-worlds-fastest-for-first-time-since-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/chinese-supercomputer-displaces-us-machines-as-worlds-fastest-for-first-time-since-2017","title":{"rendered":"Chinese supercomputer displaces US machines as world\u2019s fastest for first time since 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-supercomputer-displaces-us-machines-as-worlds-fastest-for-first-time-since-20172.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A supercomputer in China now outranks its U.S. counterparts as the world\u2019s most powerful, marking the first time since 2017 that a Chinese computer has topped a list sometimes viewed as a measure of a nation\u2019s technological prowess.<\/p>\n<p>The LineShine computer in Shenzhen, China, displaced top-ranked U.S. computer El Capitan in the latest version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/top500.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">TOP500<\/a> ranking announced Tuesday. It was the Chinese computer\u2019s debut on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists behind the TOP500 project said the LineShine computer at China\u2019s National Supercomputing Center achieved 2.198 exaflops, meaning it can perform more than 2 quintillion calculations per second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A supercomputer in China now outranks its U.S. counterparts as the world\u2019s most powerful, marking the first time since 2017 that a Chinese computer has topped a list sometimes viewed as a measure of a nation\u2019s technological prowess. The LineShine computer in Shenzhen, China, displaced top-ranked U.S. computer El Capitan in the latest version of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}