By Leo Sun April 15, 2015 China’s Tianhe-2, the fastest supercomputer in the world, is powered by 80,000 Intel(NASDAQ: INTC ) Xeon and Xeon Phi processors. The Chinese government planned to upgrade Tianhe-2 with Intel’s latest Xeon chips, which would boost Tianhe-2’s speed from 33 petaflops to over 110 petaflops. A petaflop is equivalent to roughly […]