China Takes Supercomputer Crown From U.S. for First Time Since 2017

[John Clark]

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China Takes Supercomputer Crown From U.S. for First Time Since 2017

A supercomputer in Shenzhen was declared the world’s fastest. It uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/technology/china-supercomputer-crown-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sVA.t83Z.uM3NmNThoN24&smid=em-share

[Brent Meeker]

“The U.S. government should have stronger controls on the export and manufacturing of CPUs for the China market,” said Jimmy Goodrich, a senior fellow at the University of California.

Or maybe the U.S. should have smarter engineers to do better than the Chinese...not rely on slowing the Chinese down.

Brent

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