Winners and losers in the Top500 supercomputer ranking

GPU winner: AMD

AMD is finally making a showing for itself, albeit modestly, in GPU accelerators. For the June 2025 edition of the list, AMD Instinct accelerators are in 23 systems, a nice little jump from the 10 systems on the June 2024 list. Of course, it helps with the sales pitch when AMD processors and coprocessors can be found powering the No. 1 and No. 2 supercomputers in the world.

GPU loser: Intel

Intel’s GPU efforts have been a disaster. It failed to make a dent in the consumer space with its Arc GPUs, and it isn’t making much headway in the data center, either. There were only four systems running GPU Max processors on the list, and that’s up from three a year ago. Still, it’s pitiful showing given the effort Intel made.

Server winners: HPE, Dell, EVIDAN, Nvidia

The four server vendors — servers, not component makers — all saw share increases. Nvidia is also a server vendor, selling its SuperPOD AI servers directly to customers. They all gained at the expense of Lenovo and Arm.

Server loser: Lenovo

It saw the sharpest drop in server share, going from 163 systems in June of 2024 to 136 in this most recent listing.

Loser: Arm

Other than the 13 Nvidia Grace chips, the ARM architecture was completely absent from this spring’s list.