Late last year, a Chinese military institute unveiled the world’s fastest supercomputer, accompanied by great fanfare from state media, which hailed it as a triumph of homegrown innovation.
But some top Chinese scientists were quick to dismiss the invention as little more than a propaganda stunt and it soon emerged that almost all the chips used to build the machine, the Tianhe-1, were made by Intel and Nvidia, a US computer animation company.
“I am not saying it is utterly useless,” said one outspoken professor from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in a scathing interview with a Hong Kong newspaper. “It can play video games.”
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