ARM’s win streak continues as it now powers the world’s fastest supercomputer

[Andrew]

There is a very good chance your smartphone runs on ARM hardware, as almost all of them do. And in a couple of years, so will all new Mac systems, with Apple yesterday announcing it has begun transitioning away from using Intel CPUs in favor of ARM. Here's another one to add to the list—the world's fastest supercomputer.

 

That's according to the Top500 project, which released the 55th edition of its supercomputer rankings. As of right now, the top system is Japan's Fugaku, a system jointly developed by Riken and Fujitsu. It's the first time ever that the number one spot is powered by ARM hardware, and only one of just four supercomputers overall that run on ARM.

 

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A nice win for ARM. I would imagine all the recent security issues with Intel CPU's also helped with Apples decision here. I wonder if we will one day see and ARM that is able to compete and rival AMD and Intel. Having a third wheel in the arena would certainly improve on competition.