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

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. By Don Clark (Reporting from San Francisco) China took back a coveted computing crown from the United States on Tuesday, ratcheting up a fierce technological competition that has implications for science, national security and