China's supercomputer LineShine becomes world number one in processing speed

At the International Supercomputing Conference held in Germany, the TOP500 list was announced, placing China's LineShine supercomputer first with a speed of 2,198 exaflops per second.

Scraper SystemJune 25, 2026, 06:20 PM

China's supercomputer LineShine becomes world number one in processing speed

The TOP500 list, ranking supercomputers by processing speed, was released at the International Supercomputing Conference held in Hamburg, Germany. According to the list, the supercomputer named "LineShine," developed by China, achieved the title of the world's fastest computer with a processing speed of 2,198 exaflops per second.

With this performance, equivalent to a processing capacity of 2.2 quintillion operations, LineShine surpassed supercomputers developed by the United States and other countries that previously held the top spot. The device's most notable feature is that it operates on an architecture composed entirely of central processing units (CPUs) rather than graphics processing units (GPUs). This architecture has been recorded as the first to achieve exascale performance.

Lu Yutong, the chief designer of the supercomputer, stated at the conference that LineShine was created by combining artificial intelligence-powered high-speed memory processor circuits with a special connection technology. Lu emphasized that the computer was built entirely with domestically produced processors.

Lu stressed that LineShine is designed not only for traditional scientific simulations but also to solve artificial intelligence applications, and noted that the device is used across a wide range of fields, from climate modeling and engineering calculations to drug discovery, neuroscience research, and AI studies.

In the TOP500 list, second place went to "El Capitan," developed by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, USA. It was followed by "Frontier" and "Aurora," products of national laboratories in Tennessee and Illinois. Germany's "Jupiter" ranked fifth.