CHAPTER 755: CHAPTER 246: HARD TO SAY WHO PROFITED

"Following IBM and Google, American tech giant Microsoft suddenly released its first quantum computing chip, Majorana, at 10 p.m. Beijing Time today."

"Microsoft has launched the world’s first quantum processor driven by topological cores, heralding the advent of a large-scale quantum computing era with millions of qubits ahead of schedule!"

"Twenty years of painstaking efforts culminated in the unveiling of Microsoft’s longest-running research project today. Quantum chip technology is welcoming a revolutionary breakthrough!"

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As Microsoft anticipated, the new product launch event began at 10 p.m. Huaxia Time and lasted a total of forty-five minutes. By not even 11 p.m., the Huaxia tech community had already exploded with excitement.

In terms of influence, Qiao Yu was completely defeated, even on Huaxia’s home turf.

A few days ago, Qiao Yu launched the Qiao Yu Modal Space and calculated two new Mersenne Primes but did not cause such a stir on the Huaxia’s web.

However, after Microsoft’s product launch this evening, various video accounts, tech social communities, and portal websites were flooded with this news.

Countless tech bloggers are now explaining the historical significance of this quantum chip.

New materials like "topological conductors"; the first time mankind achieved atomic-level control in chips; hardware-protected topological quantum bits; the world’s first topological conductor; the revolutionary milestone of quantum computing...

These are not even the most outrageous claims. Although this chip currently only integrates eight quantum bits, the presentation mentioned that it could soon expand to millions of quantum bits.

Along with this came a fact: all current computers in the world working together still cannot match the tasks a quantum computer with one million quantum bits can complete.

Hence, according to this inference, it won’t be long before the world is dominated by quantum computers, and the historical process of classic electronic computers being swept into the trash heap is now on a countdown.

Indeed, the path to a million quantum bits was very clear in the presentation, marked by the appearance of the first topological conductor, and now Microsoft had achieved this!

They even managed to fundamentally change quantum control through digital precision. The future has arrived, and once again, the pulse of the era is in Microsoft’s hands.

Qiao Yu enthusiastically watched the entire technological feast and hubbub.

At exactly ten o’clock in the evening, he sat in front of his computer and watched the entirety of this not-so-grand report.

Feeling bored, he picked up his phone intending to gripe a few words on WeChat, only to find his WeChat moments already filled with people praising it...

It was posted from a public account, luckily the person praising Microsoft was his middle school classmate. Praised that Microsoft’s quantum chip would completely transform the future game industry.

With the development of quantum computers, a new generation of artificial intelligence will also be introduced into the games, where future NPCs will no longer have identical scripted lines but rather have emotions and interact like in the real world.

Meanwhile, the plot will no longer be a predetermined outcome, but will instead become exciting and colorful through the logic intervention of artificial intelligence, based on the different choices made by players.

Well, it perfectly matched the persona of this old classmate from the thirteenth grade, that any company that can make great games must be the best.

But after seeing this WeChat moment, Qiao Yu started searching online for comments about Microsoft’s quantum chip and found a vast amount of content.

Essentially, they included some of Satya Nadella’s words from the presentation, injected with their own understanding, and then reiterated them.

Considering Huaxia’s rich and profound language, the processed language emphasized even more how impressive this quantum chip is.

Qiao Yu summarized that the first wave of mainstream expressions in the tech circle boiled down to two points: a good news and a bad news.

The good news is that another productivity revolution is coming; the bad news is that this time, it’s still in the West.

Frankly, Qiao Yu did not expect this.

It’s already 2026, and two years ago, before his success, the bloggers he followed had already started desperately promoting their own products.

How could they suddenly revert two years later?

But Qiao Yu quickly analyzed and concluded. He realized the authors of articles and videos praising Microsoft were totally different from the ones he had been reading before.

Hmm...

The two sides are not even on the same track; one can only say the information cocoon of intelligent algorithms is indeed terrifying, and he had been trapped in it as well.

However, it was also expected.

The essence of big data algorithms is catering to preferences until people start craving novelty, precisely aligning with the developers’ original intentions.

As for the information cocoon, it’s merely a by-product of big data algorithms, though the impact is absolutely real.

Qiao Yu didn’t expect, even in this era, Huaxia still had so many Microsoft advocates.

From his perspective, when Microsoft missed out on the mobile internet and search entry, allowing Google and Apple to seize the initiative, it was no longer a great company.

The former Blue Star’s technology-first overlord, whose operating systems were one of the foundations of the internet, didn’t even prioritize internet entry—an astonishing shortsightedness.

Of course, Microsoft was then still helmed by that old man, Bill Gates.

But later, Qiao Yu thought Microsoft still had opportunities. If subsequent mobile products could keep pace, the Microsoft brand would still have significant appeal to consumers.