Bahi,
At the moment it has “imported” chips.
Later this year it will have Chinese made chips.
Simple.
Me thinks, so-called “super computers” are overrated and merely use for bragging rights.
Or perhaps chinese want to say that they can now make their own chips and are not dependent on US companies like Intel and AMD.
But the problem is that we have not seen any notebooks or laptops that have replaced intel or AMD at their core.
If that’s the case, China must be spending $1 million per chip compared to $200 for an equivalent Intel model.
The reason is simple! Intel can sell chips that are cheaper, because they make millions and millions of those, and thus the cost per unit becomes very low and affordable.
On the other hand if Chinese made couple of hundred of those chips for their super duper computer, then their cost per chip would be very very high.
Even if cost per chip is not a factor,
It is one thing to put few hundred thousand chips together and claim the speed and capacity.
It is wholly another ball game to write programs that can truly use the supercomputers at the top speed and fully memory capacity.
So remember!
it is the bragging rights thingy and nothing else (and in the worst case scenario, Chinese taxpayers are footing a HUGE bill for something very very trivial).