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    China made the world's fastest supercomputer using its own chips

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    Jon Fingas
    Jon Fingas
    06.20.2016

    There's a new computing champion... and unlike past years, this one doesn't depend on any Western tech to crunch numbers. Top500 has declared that China's Sunway TaihuLight, a 40,960-node system powered entirely by Chinese processors (the 260-core ShenWei 26010), is the world's fastest supercomputer. And it's leading by a wide margin, too. At 93 petaflops of processing power, it's nearly three times more powerful than the previous record-setter, the 33.85-petaflop Tianhe-2.