{"id":3128,"date":"2026-06-28T21:20:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/china-claims-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T21:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:20:59","slug":"china-claims-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/china-claims-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer\/","title":{"rendered":"China claims the world\u2019s fastest supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"The LineShine supercomputer at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen. | Photo: Liang Xu\/Xinhua via Getty Images\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo: Liang Xu\/Xinhua via Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/gettyimages-2283018388.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tThe LineShine supercomputer at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen. | Photo: Liang Xu\/Xinhua via Getty Images\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite trade restrictions, China has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/6\/20\/11975356\/chinese-supercomputer-worlds-fastes-taihulight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reclaimed<\/a> the title of the world&rsquo;s fastest supercomputer for the first time since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/circuitbreaker\/2018\/6\/12\/17453918\/ibm-summit-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-america-department-of-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/china-defies-us-restrictions-and-builds-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LineShine<\/a> has pushed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/807483\/amd-department-of-energy-announce-1-billion-ai-supercomputer-partnership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Capitan<\/a> out of number one on the <a href=\"https:\/\/top500.org\/lists\/top500\/2026\/06\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TOP500<\/a> ranking. That&rsquo;s despite strict limits on what high-powered computing components can be sold to China by US firms, which dominate the list, with America holding three of the top five spots. LineShine doesn&rsquo;t even use any GPUs, which are typically the backbone of modern supercomputers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While reaching the peak of the Top500 carries obvious bragging rights, it also serves as a message from the Chinese government to the US. The Trump administration has sought \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/958768\/china-claims-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LineShine supercomputer at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen. | Photo: Liang Xu\/Xinhua via Getty Images Despite trade restrictions, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}