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Computer wars heat up as Chinese supercomputer tops all US machines in speed for first time since 2017

A Chinese supercomputer system surpassed an American computer for the world's fastest, according to an industry list published in Hamburg, Germany, on Tuesday, giving China the edge over the U.S. with the fastest supercomputer for the first time since 2017.LineShine, a system built by the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center in China, took the crown from El Capitan, a supercomputer housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, which had reigned supreme since November 2024.The last time China held the top spot was in 2017, when the Sunway TaihuLight was ranked No. 1. The U.S. h...