{"id":239539,"date":"2026-06-24T11:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/china-takes-supercomputer-crown-from-u-s-for-first-time-since-2017"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:06:33","slug":"china-takes-supercomputer-crown-from-u-s-for-first-time-since-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/china-takes-supercomputer-crown-from-u-s-for-first-time-since-2017","title":{"rendered":"China Takes Supercomputer Crown From U.S. For First Time Since 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-takes-supercomputer-crown-from-u-s-for-first-time-since-2017.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China took back a coveted computing crown from the United States on Tuesday, ratcheting up a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/30\/business\/us-supercomputer-frontier.html\" title=\"\">fierce technological competition<\/a> that has implications for science, national security and geopolitics.<\/p>\n<p>LineShine, a massive computing system in Shenzhen, China, was declared the world\u2019s fastest by a group of researchers using a set of standard tests for supercomputers. Besides raw speed, the system stood out because it uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units, which most high-end supercomputers rely on for heavy number crunching.<\/p>\n<p>That underlying design could point to a better way to blend artificial intelligence with traditional scientific tasks, said Jack Dongarra, an organizer of the so-called <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/top500.org\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Top500 list<\/a> of the world\u2019s most powerful supercomputers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China took back a coveted computing crown from the United States on Tuesday, ratcheting up a fierce technological competition that has implications for science, national security and geopolitics. LineShine, a massive computing system in Shenzhen, China, was declared the world\u2019s fastest by a group of researchers using a set of standard tests for supercomputers. Besides [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1492,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-security","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239539","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}