{"id":"7aa9e782-7473-4125-90f2-9bf5189520ba","url":"https://www.nextplatform.com/hpc/2026/06/23/amd-and-nvidia-are-neck-and-neck-in-hpc-supercomputing/5260202","domain":"nextplatform.com","outlet":{"name":"Nextplatform","country":null,"cred":null,"lean":null,"curated":false},"title":"AMD And Nvidia Are Neck And Neck In HPC Supercomputing","plainHeadline":null,"rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":["1. China's supercomputing centers are developing indigenous compute engines and accelerators.","2. The 'LineShine' supercomputer is now the fastest in the world with 2.74 exaflops peak performance.","3. LineShine uses the LingKun LX2 CPU with 304 active cores designed by NSC Shenzhen and Huawei.","4. China's OceanLight and Tianhe-3A supercomputers also exceed 1.5 exaflops and 2.05 exaflops respectively.","5. AMD's El Capitan supercomputer was surpassed by LineShine, being 21.5% less powerful.","6. New HPC machines show a trend towards hybrid architectures using Nvidia GPUs and AMD CPUs.","7. Nvidia leads in machine count with 237 systems, while AMD has higher peak flops at 8.18 exaflops.","8. The HPC sector is experiencing waves of upgrades, with exascale-class machines dominating recent installations."],"topics":["Hardware"],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-06-23T12:25:15.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-06-24T22:29:24.429Z","story":null}