China’s LineShine supercomputer has topped the TOP500 global rankings for the first time since 2017, overtaking the US-based El Capitan — and it runs entirely on homegrown chips, with no Nvidia GPUs. Here is what it means for the US-China tech race.


China’s LineShine supercomputer has topped the TOP500 global rankings for the first time since 2017, overtaking the US-based El Capitan — and it runs entirely on homegrown chips, with no Nvidia GPUs. Here is what it means for the US-China tech race.