Top Student at Their Peak-Chapter 827 - 282:

At two in the afternoon, accompanied by Professors Zheng Xiweng, Zheng Zefeng, and Wang Xingyao, Qiao Yu arrived at the Quantum Simulation Software Research Center.

This Quantum Simulation Software Research Center is the asset of the Quantum Alliance, established by all its member units.

The research center is just a few stops away from Yanbei University, almost straight across from Microsoft’s headquarters in Huaxia.

Originally, this building belonged to a once-glorious video software headquarters, but with fierce market competition, its market share dwindled year by year. Eventually, they were unable to sustain such huge expenses.

What happened next was only natural.

It happened that the Quantum Simulation Alliance needed to build a software research center. This headquarters was already in a high-tech zone, not far from Yanbei University.

Finally, at Qiao Yu’s suggestion, the alliance, which was flush with cash, bought it and converted it into a research center.

In Qiao Yu’s vision, in the not-too-distant future, when Microsoft falters and needs to sell off assets, the alliance could conveniently buy Microsoft’s Huaxia headquarters building too.

Then the software research center could dedicate a system department there.

The Tai Chi Series Quantum Simulation Computer represents the trend of future development. As long as the enterprises within the alliance make money, they will certainly become more and more specialized in the future.

The operating system indeed needs to be independent. It is even necessary to establish a dedicated company to take care of the system’s iteration, upgrades, and maintenance, as well as maintaining the relationship with developers.

Currently, it’s not necessary because the relevant software developers are contacted by the state.

Mainly, it’s about negotiating with those large domestic software and gaming companies to proactively do some adaptation.

As for the smaller companies, they currently don’t have the technical capability to create supporting applications for Tai Chi.

But this doesn’t affect the use of existing applications on the Tai Chi Series Quantum Simulation Computer.

The system itself can simulate the classic X86 architecture, which is enough to ensure that .exe files run smoothly in the simulated environment.

And this does not infringe on Microsoft’s copyright.

Because the simulation environment does not directly apply Windows’s underlying code, but rather, like wine, it runs these programs by implementing a compatibility layer.

Additionally, graphics rendering, file systems, and user interfaces also avoid Microsoft’s patents. Qiao Yu still trusts the capability of those big companies in this area.

Of course, if Microsoft insists on bringing up the end-user license agreement, Qiao Yu feels the alliance is not afraid.

After all, the gloves have long since come off.

The most important thing is that even space-based defense satellites are in place, so being afraid of a lawsuit doesn’t make much sense.

In a situation where both parties are equally matched, international lawsuits between big companies can easily drag on for seven, eight, or even ten years.

By then, the Tai Chi Series Quantum Simulation Computers might have reached the seventh or eighth generation, and if all goes well, by then, .exe will probably have become history.

Even if Microsoft, Intel, and NVIDIA, these once-glorious high-tech enterprises, haven’t gone bankrupt, they will most likely be on the verge of collapse.

After all, relying on only the low-end market certainly cannot sustain massive R&D expenses.

This is something that can’t be helped.

In the high-tech field, if you fall behind at one step, you will fall further behind.

Faced with the future of R&D, it means extremely high costs, which implies that once these high-tech companies fail to maintain sufficient profits, while also losing financing channels and capabilities, they can only slowly decay and eventually die.

This too is something that can’t be helped.

Following the current technological development trend, to adapt to R&D positions, a starting master’s degree is necessary. And you have to be one of the outstanding ones. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

You definitely can’t keep such people with low salaries. Especially in countries like the United States, where the power of capital has been magnified to no end, without talking about money, what else can you possibly discuss, sacrifice?

In fact, the biggest problem in the United States is that it is truly very difficult to go from luxury to frugality!

Huaxia developed from an era of grinding poverty through the continuous dedication of three generations to the point where it can rival the opposition. It even surpasses the other side.

Reaching this stage, discussing the spirit of sacrifice has already gone against the mainstream ideology and is even labeled with a name that people find repulsive—PUA.

Not to mention the United States, which has been affluent for over a century!

However, those at the bottom, working three jobs just to make ends meet, indeed can endure hardship; after all, if they don’t work, they don’t eat.

The problem is that most of these people grew up enjoying real happy education, and even have difficulty understanding that the Earth is round, let alone the abstract quantum world.

Those who have the ability are unwilling to sacrifice, and those who are willing to sacrifice lack the ability. It can only be said that this world is controlled by rules, always hard to have it both ways.

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Lately, Qiao Yu has been in a rather good mood.

That night, his wish was finally fulfilled. That night, he originally thought of inviting Keke over to his place, just to chat casually.

But those who’ve been there understand the dilemma. When the two of you are together late at night, having to choose between being a beast and being worse than a beast, you can only choose the lesser of two evils.

After all, you can’t really do something worse than a beast, right?

Even though it was something bound to happen sooner or later, Qiao Yu still enjoyed the process.

How to say, reason is reason, but teenage confusion is something controlled by the brain’s secretion of hormones.