Winner: Slingshot-11
Slingshot-11 is a 200G proprietary interconnect developed by HPE and its Cray supercomputer subsidiary. Because the variety of Cray methods will increase on the record, so goes the variety of Slingshot-11 based mostly methods. The overall variety of Slingshot-11 methods jumped from 37 and 2024 to 52 this yr.
Loser: Ethernet
I wish to preface this by including the caveat {that a} third of all networking is lumped into the amorphous “different” class, making a whole image of inauspicious to acquire. That mentioned, Ethernet is falling out of favor has an interconnect for HPC.
First, regardless of all of the hype and hubbub and enthusiasm round 400G and 800G Ethernet, 25G and 100G are the one two break-out Ethernet ports on the record. On the November 2025 record, 25G and 100G Ethernet accounted for 78 methods. One yr earlier, 10G, 25G and 100G accounted for 132 methods complete.
Winner: Intel
Among the many CPU processor generations, the brand new Xeon 6, AKA Sapphire Rapids, which debuted earlier this yr and thus didn’t make a exhibiting on the 2024 record, now powers 73 methods, surpassing the AMD Zen 3 (Milan) structure for essentially the most extensively deployed CPU structure.
Loser: AMD
Regardless of having two of the highest three supercomputers utilizing its GPU accelerator and the truth that Intuition is on par with the perfect from Nvidia, AMD is admittedly getting no traction with its Intuition line. It went from 12 methods in 2024 to 14 methods in 2025, and that was with the older MI250X playing cards, which have since been changed by the 300 era.
Issues weren’t significantly better on the processor aspect. The Zen 2 by Zen 4 architectures collectively accounted for 162 methods in 2024 and 164 methods in 2025 for a acquire of two.
