China made the best new supercomputer and it uses Chinese chips

There's a new supercomputer in town, and it has topped every other supercomputer on the planet.

The new Chinese supercomputer, dubbed the Sunway TaihuLight, was in the first slot on the Top500 list of supercomputers Monday.

The fact that the Sunway TaihuLight is in China isn't anything special — the previous and now second-best supercomputer on the list is also Chinese. But that one, the Tianhe-2, used chips from Intel, a U.S. company. 

The Sunway TaihuLight breaks the mold by using all-Chinese architecture, and it hits some impressive benchmarks in doing so. Read more...