The computer called Sunway TaihuLight developed by the National Research Centre of Concurrent Computer Engineering and Technology is constructed completely using central processing units made and designed in China.

The supercomputer installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in China displaced Tianhe 2, an Intel-based Chinese supercomputer that’s claimed the top 1 place on the previous six TOP500 lists.

The carefully watched list is issued twice annually.

Sunway TaihuLight is twice as fast and three times as efficient as Tianhe 2, which posted a functionality of 33.86 quadrillions of calculations per second.

Sequoia, an IBM BlueGene/Q system installed at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Fujitsu’s K computer are at the fifth and fourth places respectively.

Hazel Hen installed in Saudi Arabia, both Cray XC40 systems in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology at High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart in Germany and Shaheen II, are at the tenth and ninth locations.

The most recent list indicates the very first time since the beginning of the TOP500 that the US isn’t home to the greatest amount of systems.

With a surge in research and industrial setups filed over the last few years, China leads with 167 systems and the US is second with 165.