The top leading microprocessor innovator "Intel" has been fell behind when it comes to supercomputer chips issue, Intel has been punched down by Chinese Government and IBM
According to the news, Chinese government has launched their supercomputer called "TaihuLight" that is capable of performing 124.5 petaflop making it the first supercomputer to break the 100 petaflop. Technically, a single petaflop is equal a one quadrillion calculations per second, that's how TaihuLight performs, since TaihLight is made from Chinese government it also runs entirely on Chinese hardware from CPU to RAM and other stuff inside the system unit.
While the Chinese government is celebrating the birth of their supercomputer, on the other hand, The IBM has also revealed "Summit" a supercomputer that is said will be deployed in the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory this coming early 2018. This monstrous machine is capable of running at 150 petaflops, but IBM surprised the audience when they claim that this machine can run up to 200 petaflops, that's a record breaking performance when it comes to processing and computing. The Summit runs not on any Intel's processor but with their very own IBM Power9 Microprocessors and with Nvidia's Next-gen Vola GPUs.
So why the Intel left Behind?
So there are many reasons to consider why this happens to Intel, First is the U.S. Government, Why? recently we heard the news that the U.S. Government blocked the Intel from selling their new Xeon chips to Chinese supercomputers last April, what lies behind this reason is their role in nuclear research. It is said that the Chinese Government has ordered tens of thousands of new Xeon chips from Intel to upgrade Tianhe-2 speed from 33 petaflops to almost over 110 petaflops, that's a lot of upgrade for a supercomputer's computing speed.
Conclusion
Though Intel has been fell behind in terms of supercomputer, on the other hand Intel's technology continues to power our gadgets from desktop, laptop and smartphones, Intel might be fell behind but Intel believers believe that sooner or later a new supercomputer from Intel will rise that will perform topmost from its competitors.