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.

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.

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The supercomputer has an innovative chip design that allows it to carry out more than 2 quintillion calculations per second.

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

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 now has the world's fastest supercomputer, overtaking the United States. The system, known as LineShine and installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, displaced the US system El Capitan from the top spot in the TOP500 ranking in terms of computing power.

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.

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

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.