China's LineShine supercomputer surpasses El Capitan for world's fastest on the TOP500 List, the first time since 2020 a U.S. system lost the crown.

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China has clinched the top spot on a list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, overtaking the United States for the first time since 2017 with homegrown chips amid an intense race for tech supremacy between the two superpowers.

China’s LineShine tops the June 2026 TOP500 supercomputer list, though mixed-precision results leave El Capitan stronger on AI-style workloads.

Dawn, the multi-million-pound supercomputer owned by the University of Cambridge , was forced offline on June 27 when temperatures at the institution reached 30C.

By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, June 23 (Reuters) - China has overtaken the U.S. to win the top spot on a list of the world's fastest supercomputers, but the results may say more about Beijing's desire to show self-sufficiency in computing systems than its standing in the global AI race,

A supercomputer in Shenzhen was declared the world’s fastest. It uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units.

China took the supercomputer crown by relying on CPUs and not GPUs like other models.

China has overtaken the US in building the world’s most powerful computer with a breakthrough machine. Shenzhen’s LineShine has topped the TOP500, a ranking of the world’s supercomputers.

The heatwave that struck the UK late last month resulted in the University of Cambridge’s Dawn supercomputer being knocked offline. Per a report from The Times, the supercomputer was one of several services that suffered an outage on June 27 due to excessive temperatures.