China's LineShine tops June 2026 TOP500 with over 2.19 exaflops
China's new LineShine supercomputer is now officially the fastest on the planet, topping the June 2026 TOP500 rankings.
Built at Shenzhen's National Supercomputing Center, it clocked over 2.19 exaflops, outpacing the United States's El Capitan by 22%.
The TOP500 list, released twice a year, measures how well these machines handle tough math problems.
LineShine runs AI without separate GPUs
LineShine mixes classic computing with AI smarts and packs nearly 14 million processing cores, all without using separate GPUs (which most supercomputers rely on for AI tasks).
It was built mostly with homegrown Chinese tech, sidestepping US export bans.
Researchers are already using it for things like predicting rainfall in East Asia and simulating materials at the atomic level, showing off China's growing skills in high-powered computing.