US specialist HPC trade press
By lens · 1 takes across the edition
HPCwire · United States · China's LineShine tops TOP500 at 2.198 exaflops, first ARM-only supercomputer at No. 1
HPCwire calls it a 'surprise' and notes the system's entirely domestic chip stack (ARM LX2 at 1.55 GHz, 304 cores per die) as a direct rebuttal to US export controls. It covers the 20,480-node configuration and the transition from petascale to exascale at the summit.
“LineShine's debut at the top of the TOP500 is a direct rebuttal to U.S. export controls: not an Nvidia or AMD chip in sight.”