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TNB Tech Minute: China’s LineShine Supercomputer Overtakes U.S. as World’s Fastest

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Plus: humanoid robot maker Agility Robotics is planning to go public in a $2.5 billion SPAC deal. And South Korean chip maker SK Hynix is planning to raise more than $29 billion through a U.S. listing. Danny Lewis hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think the potential of Agenic is to rethink how work gets done overall. It challenges all sorts

0:06.5

of traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand. That's Jason Gersatus,

0:12.6

CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of A.Gentic AI. Join him later

0:18.6

to learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries.

0:24.4

Here's your morning, TNB Tech Minute, for Wednesday, June 24th. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.

0:30.9

The world's fastest supercomputer is now from China. According to a widely cited ranking of the most

0:36.5

powerful computing systems, China's

0:38.6

Line Shine system has taken the number one spot. The latest top 500 ranking found the Chinese

0:44.3

supercomputer was able to calculate 22% faster than the number two contender, El Capitan, at California's

0:50.7

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Lineshine's chief designer says it was built to support both traditional scientific simulations

0:57.4

and AI workloads, though supercomputers also have military applications.

1:02.9

We exclusively report that human-like robot maker agility is set to go public in a deal

1:08.2

valuing it at about $2.5 billion.

1:13.0

The startup's flagship robot,

1:18.2

Digit, is used in manufacturing and warehouses, and its customers include Amazon and logistics company GXO. Agility's executives told the journal it is set to merge with a special purpose

1:23.7

acquisition company, Michael Klein's Churchill Capital Corporation 11, and the companies expect

1:28.9

gross proceeds of over $600 million from the deal. Also, South Korean chipmaker S.K. Heinex

1:35.5

plans to raise more than $29 billion through a U.S. listing on the NASDAQ. The world's second

1:41.1

largest memory chip manufacturer is seeking to tap foreign investment to fund its expansion plans amid the AI boom.

1:47.5

The deal would be one of the biggest share sales in history, comparable to Saudi Aramco's 2019 initial public offering.

1:54.7

S.K. Hynix expects its American depository receipts to start trading on July 10th.

2:00.2

That's your TNB Tech Minute.

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