China’s LineShine tops TOP500, displacing US supercomputer El Capitan

The speedy machine displaces the U.S.’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s El Capitan at the top of the TOP500 rankings of the world’s fastest supercomputers

China's Line Shine supercomputer is the most powerful in the world and the first the country has hosted since 2017.

Despite trade restrictions, China has reclaimed the title of the world's fastest supercomputer for the first time since 2018. LineShine has pushed El Capitan out of number one on the TOP500 ranking. That's despite strict limits on what high-powered computing components can be sold to China by US firms, which dominate the list, with America […]

The Chinese supercomputer LineShine was ranked as the fastest in the world, despite not using any GPUs.

A supercomputer in Shenzhen just topped the world rankings for the first time since 2017. The headline is the speed. The real story is the silicon: it runs without a single chip from Nvidia, AMD or Intel. China has taken back the supercomputing crown. On Tuesday, organisers declared a machine called LineShine the world’s fastest […] This story continues at The Next Web

China’s LineShine system won the No. 1 spot on the latest Top500 supercomputer ranking released this week.

China's LineShine supercomputer in Shenzhen has topped the latest TOP500 list, becoming the world's fastest at 2.198 exaflops and ending America's reign since 2017. Remarkably, it runs entirely on homegrown CPUs—no Nvidia, AMD, or Intel GPUs—delivering a pointed message to Washington's chip export controls. But experts caution the win isn't an AI crown: LineShine ranked only fourth on AI-style benchmarks, and top US hyperscaler systems don't even enter.

China’s LineShine overtakes US-based El Capitan as most powerful supercomputer, according to the TOP500 list.

The LineShine computer in Shenzhen, China, displaced top-ranked US computer El Capitan in the latest version of the TOP500 ranking

WASHINGTON: A Chi­n­ese machine has seized the title of world’s most powerful supercomputer, ending nearly a decade of US dominance and underscoring Beijing’s drive to build advanced computing power with homegrown technology. The system, called Lin­e­Shine, topped the closely watched TOP500 ranking unveiled at the major computing ISC conference in Hamburg, Germany. It is the first time since 2017 that a Chinese supercomputer has led the list, which has been published twice a year since 1993 and serves as an informal scoreboard for the world’s computing superpowers. LineShine knocked the previous champion, the US Energy Department’s El Capitan, into second place. Located in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, the mac­hine hit a sustained speed of 2.2 “exaflops” — a measure of how many calculations a computer can perform each second. Crucially, LineShine was built entirely with Chin­ese-designed processors, rather than the US-made chips that power most of the world’s top systems. The US still claims three of the top four spots, with El Capitan, housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, coming in at second place. Out of Eur­ope, Germ­any’s JUPITER Booster rounds out the top five. Published in Dawn, June 24th, 2026

China’s LineShine debuts at number one in Top500 – a list sometimes viewed as a national measure of global tech prowessA supercomputer in China now outranks its US counterparts as the world’s most powerful. It is the first time since 2017 that a Chinese computer has topped a list sometimes viewed as a measure of a nation’s technological prowess.The LineShine computer in Shenzhen displaced top-ranked US computer El Capitan in the Top500 rankings released on Tuesday. It was LineShine’s debut on the list. Continue reading...

Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear shares a report from TOP500: The 67th edition of the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers was announced today at the ISC 2026 conference in Hamburg, Germany. LineShine, a previously unlisted system installed in China, debuts at No. 1, displacing El Capitan as the world's most powerful supercomputer as measured by the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark. LineShine achieved 2.198 Exaflop/s on HPL -- about 80 percent of its 2.736 Exaflop/s theoretical peak -- making it the first system on the TOP500 to exceed two exaflops of sustained double-precision performance using CPUs only. Installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen (NSCS) and built by the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center, the system is based on a custom Chinese processor and the "LingKun" platform: 13.79 million cores across 304-core LX2 processors running at 1.55 GHz, linked by the proprietary LingQi interconnect and running Kylin OS. LineShine draws approximately 42.2 megawatts of power, for an efficiency of 52.07 Gigaflops/Watt. Its debut marks the first time since 2017 that a Chinese system has led the TOP500, and it also takes over the No. 1 position on the HPCG ranking with 22.00 HPCG-Petaflop/s. On the HPL-MxP mixed-precision benchmark, LineShine reached 7.92 Exaflop/s for fourth place, a comparatively modest 3.6x speedup over its HPL score that points to a CPU-only design without dedicated low-precision accelerators. While impressive, "the results may say more about Beijing's desire to show self-sufficiency in computing systems than its standing in the global AI race," reports Reuters. Reuters interviewed tech and policy experts who said that the results "do not mean that China has the world's fastest computer for AI work because of changes in the computing industry in recent years and the methods used to compile the list." The reports notes that LineShine "ranked fourth on a benchmark test designed to simulate computing work that is more similar to AI." Jimmy Goodrich, a senior fellow at the University of California's Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, said: "If the hyperscalers submitted their systems, this 'world's fastest' would not crack the top five." Addison Snell, CEO of Intersect360 Research, a firm that focuses on supercomputers, added: "I'm not surprised it's the number one system. What I'm surprised by is that they submitted it and want recognition for it." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

China has reclaimed the world’s fastest supercomputer crown for the first time since 2017, according to the latest TOP500 rankings released at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, on Tuesday. LineShine, built by the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen, achieved 2.198 exaflops of performance – nearly 2.2 quintillion calculations per second – surpassing the previous champion, El Capitan, at California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which reached 1.809...

National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen has deployed a new supercomputer called LineShine, as China pushes to strengthen domestic computing capabilities amid global competition in advanced technologies. The system delivers performance of up to 1.54 exaFLOPS and is powered by Armv9-based LX2 processors, each featuring 304 CPU cores. Unlike many modern supercomputers that depend heavily on […]