China unveils GPU-free LineShine supercomputer with 2.45 million domestic CPU cores

National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen has deployed a new supercomputer called LineShine, as China pushes to strengthen domestic computing capabilities amid global competition in advanced technologies. The system delivers performance of up to 1.54 exaFLOPS and is powered by Armv9-based LX2 processors, each featuring 304 CPU cores. Unlike many modern supercomputers that depend heavily on GPUs for large-scale parallel computing, LineShine primarily relies on CPUs for general computing and coor