The South China Morning Post reported that Chinese AI chipmaker Iluvatar CoreX showed its first supernode on Monday at the 2026 China International Industry Fair in Shanghai. The Tiangai 300 IXL144 packs 144 graphics processing units (GPUs, the chips that do most AI work), 18 central processing units and about 10.1 terabytes of memory into one cabinet, the company said. SCMP called the GPU count a record.
SCMP describes a supernode as computing, storage, networking, management and software joined into one supercomputer. The buyer therefore weighs one whole system, not loose parts. Iluvatar says it cuts the price of each million valid tokens by 40 per cent against rival systems from abroad. Tokens are the small pieces of text AI models handle. The report names no compared products, no test method, no price and no sales date.
A cost claim is useful only when its baseline and method are public. Buyers should ask which products were compared, what counts as a valid token, which workloads ran, and at what utilisation. Here the figure comes from the maker alone. SCMP adds that US export controls limit access to advanced Nvidia chips.