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China’s LineShine has overtaken the US El Capitan to become the world’s fastest supercomputer on the TOP500 list, delivering about 2,198 exaflops at roughly 42.2 MW using CPUs only and no GPUs, built entirely with Chinese hardware and software, signaling Beijing’s tech-dominance push amid export restrictions.
China’s LineShine supercomputer in Shenzhen has claimed the world’s top spot on the TOP500 list with 2.198 exaflops, surpassing the US El Capitan; it runs on CPUs and consumes about 42.2 MW, with four European systems also in the top 10. The milestone boosts AI research and other advanced science, framed by Beijing as part of a broader “China Opportunity 2.0” amid ongoing debates about subsidies and global tech leadership.
China’s LineShine overtook the US El Capitan to become the world’s fastest supercomputer on the biannual TOP500 list, attaining 2.198 exaflops on a CPU-only design at Shenzhen’s National Supercomputing Centre. El Capitan had led since November 2024, Frontier remains third, and other nations’ systems populate the top 20, underscoring ongoing tech competition even as AI advances reshape how the rankings are viewed. The TOP500 ranking relies on the LINPACK benchmark, a measure of solving large linear systems.
China’s LineShine supercomputer, built at Shenzhen’s National Supercomputing Center and running on conventional CPUs, tops the Top500 list with 2.198 exaflops and about 42.2 MW of power, marking the first Chinese lead since 2017. It dethrones the U.S. El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, with other top systems in Tennessee, Illinois and Germany making up the upper ranks; the article also notes Europe’s plan for AI gigafactories and concerns about cooling water use and power consumption in large-scale machines.
At ISC 2026, LineShine debuts at No. 1 on the TOP500 with 2.198 exaflops in HPL (CPU‑only LingKun cores), signaling a new global exascale era as Asia joins North America and Europe at the forefront. El Capitan remains No. 2 and Frontier No. 3, while Aurora and JUPITER Booster sit at Nos. 4–5 and HPC7 enters the Top 10 at No. 6. The list shows diversified architectures across continents, with Green500 leaders unchanged. LineShine also leads HPCG, while El Capitan remains No. 1 on HPL‑MxP.
The 65th TOP500 list highlights the continued dominance of the El Capitan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as the top system, with the US leading in Exascale systems alongside Frontier and Aurora. The list also features new advancements like the JUPITER Booster in Germany and updates on energy efficiency and benchmark performance, reflecting ongoing progress in high-performance computing.
AMD has surpassed Nvidia in the November Top500 supercomputer rankings, largely due to the new "El Capitan" system, which features AMD's hybrid CPU-GPU compute engines. El Capitan, built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has achieved a peak theoretical performance of 2,746.4 petaflops, making it the most powerful supercomputer on the list. AMD's GPUs now account for 72.1% of the new performance added to the rankings, marking a significant shift in the high-performance computing landscape.
Intel's Aurora supercomputer has made its debut on the TOP500 list, but only as a partial deployment and in the second spot. With a peak double-precision compute target of over two exaFLOPS, Aurora falls short at 585.34 petaFLOPS due to delays and incomplete scaling. The top spot is held by AMD-powered Frontier, while Intel celebrates powering 23 new systems on the TOP500 list. AMD, on the other hand, boasts powering 140 systems and highlights its dominance in efficiency rankings. Aurora is expected to be fully online in 2024, but AMD's El Capitan is already anticipated to surpass its performance.