A Chinese supercomputer is the world’s fastest and uses Chinese-designed processors💠

This year's champion is the Sunway TaihuLight at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, west of Shanghai, according to TOP500. It was developed by China's National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology using entirely Chinese-designed processors. 

The TaihuLight is capable of 93 petaflops, or quadrillion calculations per second, according to TOP500. It is intended for use in engineering and research including climate, weather, life sciences, advanced manufacturing and data analytics. 

Its top speed is about five times that of Oak Ridge's Titan, which uses Cray, NVIDIA and Opteron technology. 

China also displaced the US as the country with the most supercomputers in the top 500 ranking of the most powerful computers in the world. China had 167 systems and the United States had 165. Japan was a distant No. 3 with 29 systems,Germany was in fourth place with 26 systems, France was next with 18, followed by Britain with 12.