{"id":110018,"date":"2026-06-23T15:27:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/china-beats-us-with-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-but-race-not-geared-for-ai-work-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:27:40","slug":"china-beats-us-with-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-but-race-not-geared-for-ai-work-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/china-beats-us-with-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-but-race-not-geared-for-ai-work-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"China beats US with world’s fastest supercomputer, but race not geared for AI work | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

China’s LineShine, using homegrown chips, topped TOP500 supercomputers, marking China’s return after 3 years<\/p>\n

The LineShine system at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen, China. PHOTO: akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com <\/p>\n

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China \u200bhas overtaken the United States to win the top spot on a list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, but the results may \u200csay more about Beijing’s desire to show self-sufficiency in computing systems than its standing in the global AI race, experts said.<\/p>\n

The LineShine system at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen, China, uses domestically designed chips and won the top spot on the TOP500, a biannual global ranking of supercomputers, with the country’s first listing in three years.<\/p>\n

The \u200branking comes as the US and China are increasingly competing in advanced computing, with US President Donald Trump<\/a> on Monday signing an executive order<\/a> \u200bthat aims to put the US ahead of China in the emerging field of quantum computing.<\/p>\n

In the June 2026 \u2060edition of TOP500, LineShine beat out the previous titleholder, El Capitan, a supercomputer housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that the US government uses \u200bto develop and maintain its nuclear weapons stockpile.<\/p>\n

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But technology and policy experts interviewed by Reuters<\/em> said the results do not mean that China has the world’s \u200bfastest computer for AI work because of changes in the computing industry in recent years and the methods used to compile the list. LineShine ranked fourth on a benchmark test designed to simulate computing work that is more similar to AI.<\/p>\n

Benchmark tests<\/strong><\/p>\n

For decades, supercomputers strung together many separate machines to work on complex scientific problems, such as \u200bsimulating how atoms interact with one another and were mostly the domain of national labs and universities. To be ranked on the TOP500 list, supercomputer \u200boperators must run a set of benchmark tests that aim to mimic such work.<\/p>\n

But in more recent years, cloud computing companies such as Microsoft, Amazon.com and Alphabet’s Google \u200cbuilt out \u2060massive supercomputers of their own but geared them for AI work instead.<\/p>\n

Most of those companies do not opt to compete for a spot on the TOP500 list. A study last year by AI policy researchers Konstantin Pilz, James Sanders, Robi Rahman and Lennart Heim found that SpaceX-owned xAI’s Colossus system was already likely more powerful than the US\u00a0government’s El Capitan.<\/p>\n

“If the hyperscalers submitted their systems, this ‘world’s fastest’ would not crack the top five,” said Jimmy \u200bGoodrich, a senior fellow at the \u200bUniversity of California’s Institute for Global \u2060Conflict and Cooperation.<\/p>\n

Chip design efforts<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Chinese victory on the list more likely shows that China wanted recognition for its chip design efforts, which is a change from recent years, experts said.<\/p>\n

China first took the top spot on the \u200bTOP500 in 2010 and traded titles back and forth with the US\u00a0and Japan until 2023, when China \u200bstopped submitting its \u2060systems after years of chip- and computing-related export controls from Trump’s first administration and later under President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not surprised it\u2019s the number one system. What I\u2019m surprised by is that they submitted it and want recognition for it,” said Addison Snell, CEO of Intersect360 Research, a firm that focuses on supercomputers.<\/p>\n

The \u2060LineShine system \u200bdoes not contain any advanced AI chips, according to details presented with the results, likely \u200bbecause the tools to make those chips are still subject to U.S. export controls.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina is hoping to convince the world export controls are useless by hoping we ignore the details,” Goodrich \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n

The National Supercomputing Centre did not respond immediately to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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