The Bay Area has just won a coveted crown in computing, with a massive new machine at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory deemed the most powerful system in the world.

A supercomputer housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore has officially been crowned as the world’s fastest. The computer, known as “El Capitan,” is a collaboration between LLNL,

AMD powers the El Capitan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) with Instinct MI300A APUs, the faster supercomputer in the world.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in collaboration with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Hewlett Packard Enterprise

The supercomputer, housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, achieves 1.742 exaFLOPs. China's machines could be even faster, but it's not sharing details publicly.