A Chinese machine called LineShine has topped the TOP500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, unveiled at the ISC conference in Hamburg, Germany, ending nearly a decade of US dominance and marking the first time since 2017 that a Chinese supercomputer has led the list. LineShine knocked the previous champion, the US Energy Department’s El Capitan, into second place. Located in Shenzhen, China, the machine hit a sustained speed of 2.2 “exaflops” and was built entirely with Chinese-designed processors. The US still claims three of the top four spots, with El Capitan housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, and Germany’s JUPITER Booster rounds out the top five. The list has been published twice a year since 1993.