(Mashable) -- The United States no longer owns the world's fastest supercomputer. A computer called Tianhe-1A, unveiled on Wednesday at a conference in Beijing, China, can run calculations faster ...

The Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Energy (DOE) have funded more than 100 research projects using Chinese ...

Last month, a Chinese military-developed supercomputer, Tianhe, once again ranked first in an international test of AI computing efficiency, marking a second win since 2021. The supercomputer has ...

The module, named “Tianhe”, or “Harmony of the Heavens”, was launched on the Long March 5B, China’s largest carrier rocket, at 11.23am (0323 GMT) from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre on ...

but some computer scientists say China‘s Tianhe-3 may be as fast. WSJ unpacks the tech and design of the machines as the two countries race to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges.

In 2008, IBM's Roadrunner was the first computer to exceed one petaFLOPS (see Roadrunner). In 2010, China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer claimed the top speed with 2.4 petaFLOPS. Meaning "Milky Way ...