Of course, Qiao Yu also saw this news. He even knew something earlier than those professors. After all, he will be notified of all the news that is related to him now.
He doesn't need to pay attention at all.
Qiao Yu also studied the time when Microsoft released this announcement. It happened to be twenty minutes after he talked to a Microsoft representative.
The person who is in charge of the negotiations with Qiao Yu is Ranville Chandra, who is a director of industrial research at Microsoft Research Institute.
Just by looking at the name, you will know that this is an Indian-born Microsoft executive.
Qiao Yu carefully recalled the negotiation process with Ranville Chandra at that time.
The Indian-born executive objected to some of his conditions, and then he agreed to his conditions with Google, the leading company in quantum supercomputing. Why are there so many things in your little Microsoft? It ended the conversation strongly.
Of course, these are definitely not Qiao Yu's original words. But that's probably what it means.
Now it seems that Microsoft is still a little dissatisfied with his evaluation. For example, does it think its technology is not worse than Google?
To be honest, Qiao Yu felt a little strange.
After all, he has not paid much attention to the progress of research on quantum hardware.
After all, Qiao Yu has not been in contact with the scientific research field for a long time, and most of the time he focuses on pure mathematics research.
Even if you are interested in brute-force cracking of large prime numbers, your focus will be to solve the problem through algorithms and software.
After all, the cycle of studying hardware is too long. It is also limited by the industrial strength of the small ball. The time spent is calculated in ten years.
It's okay for Qiao Yujue to ask him to provide some help, but he definitely doesn't have the patience to study this kind of thing.
Just like the moon landing project, it is always a ten-year plan, and it requires several generations of relay. The first generation of astronauts have retired before they can send their unmanned vehicles to the moon.
When the manned moon landing begins, another large number of people will probably retire. Unlike in previous years when we went from zero to the stage, today's large-scale projects are difficult to reflect individual contributions.
But software and algorithms are different. There is little investment and quick results. It does not require a team of thousands of engineers to overcome thousands of engineering problems.
Of course, this does not mean that hardware is not important. But Qiao Yu feels that these things can be left to professionals to do. What he does is more meaningful - under the conditions of existing hardware, squeeze out every potential of the hardware and give an optimal solution.
This is what an elegant mathematician should do.
You can't let him try and make mistakes stupidly, right? If you delve into the history of human engineering development, you will find that this is a history of crazy trial and error.
And any engineering development is like this, without exception. Aerospace, aerospace, chips, electricity and even infrastructure...
As long as you are good at summarizing and summarizing, and a little bit of luck, you can always find a solution after you have tried and made enough mistakes. Even if you think about it, you will feel that this is not beautiful.
This is also one of the reasons why the Chinese industrial system can develop to such a scale.
There are many people, and it has spent decades to popularize education. In addition, intra-volume culture, dozens or hundreds of laboratories can be tried and errors at the same time in a project, and it is difficult to not be able to achieve high efficiency.
Although this process has definitely caused a lot of waste of resources, the overall result is still good.
At least 50% of the manufacturing productivity in the small-bang ball is rooted in this land and has even won the reputation of "Industrial Cthulhu".
When Microsoft suddenly released chips at this time, it didn't even give it a little time to prepare. Qiao Yu could naturally conclude that this was the result of Ranville Chandra's emergency communication with the company's upper-level team after talking to him.
However, considering that he and Ranville Chandra had already finished their negotiations at almost five in the morning, they still had the energy to hold a senior meeting and make a quick decision, Qiao Yu had to admire the professionalism of these high-tech executives.
Really, if anyone tells Qiao Yu about European and American technology companies in the future, Qiao Yu must spit his face.
At around 4 a.m., I was still on the front line of negotiations. After the negotiations, I had to report, hold meetings, and make decisions...
Maybe Microsoft executives don’t know what the streets in New York look like at 4 a.m., but they must know how beautiful the scenery on Redmond is at 4 a.m.
This is much more dedicated than ordinary workers.
However, Qiao Yu was still not sure what motives were forcing Microsoft to make this decision.
Is it because he said that Microsoft's quantum technology is not as good as Google, and he directly stimulated the other side, so he wants to prove it? Or do he want to grasp the negotiation conditions?
If it is the former, Qiao Yu really doesn't mind.
After all, the internal competition between the two super technology companies in the Empire has nothing to do with him, just watch the excitement.
As far as he knows, when Google announced that it had achieved quantum hegemony, IBM's president also poured cold water on it.
But if it were the latter, Qiao Yu would be really unhappy.
He has been living a smooth life in recent times and has not encountered any setbacks. It is unreasonable that he was demonstrated by Microsoft.
Especially since he has a good deal with other companies from the perspective of strength, Microsoft suddenly jumped out like this. If he doesn't give a response, it will be difficult to talk to others.
This made Qiao Yu start to be alert. He still had to hold more aces in his hand and keep them. He could not throw all the aces out at once.
In this way, when someone jumps out and provokes his authority, he can also keep up immediately.
Fortunately, it doesn't matter this time.
He also doesn't think that the quantum chip that Microsoft is about to release will bring great changes to the world's quantum computing development pattern.
This is a very simple truth.
If it was really so powerful, when he announced the new progress in quantum simulation computing at the report meeting, it directly affected the stock prices of a number of high-tech companies. Why didn’t he announce it quickly at that time?
But after talking to him first, I chose to announce it when I was not satisfied. This was a bad idea, which was enough to show that Microsoft itself was not so confident about this product.
So Qiao Yu was too lazy to look at the papers published by Microsoft scientists in recent years, just like those professors. After all, he was not interested in hardware research.
However, Qiao Yu naturally has his own channels to inquire about the news, such as Peter Schultz.
This German mathematician happened to cooperate with Microsoft Research. Although it has nothing to do with the research on quantum chips, Qiao Yu feels that these cutting-edge research are all in common.
Qiao Yu doesn't believe that Microsoft has not used quantum computing to intervene in the proof of mathematical theorems.
Fortunately, this time is still very suitable.
Although the United States is only seven o'clock in the morning at this time, the time zone in China is only six hours faster than that in Germany. Even considering the unique sunshine time in the West, this time should be the time for Germany to have lunch and rest for lunch.
Of course, the premise is that Peter Schultz is indeed in Germany.
However, Qiao Yu felt that friends did not need to worry about so much, not to mention that Peter Schultz had already vaguely tended to regard him as an idol...
When idols face fans, they don’t need to worry about the jet lag. So Qiao Yu raised his hand and took out his phone and dialed it to Peter Schultz.
The facts also prove that Qiao Yu's analysis is correct, because Peter Schultz answered his phone number after just two rings.
This is enough to prove that the cold German mathematician was very happy to receive his call at this time.
"Hi Joe, this is the first call you have ever made to me, and I'm so honored."
"Haha, Peter, if you say that, I may harass you at any time in the future! For example, when I finish breakfast, it is usually when you sleep soundly."
"Well, Joe, what's the matter?"
Obviously, Qiao Yu's joke made Peter Schultz unable to withstand it.
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There is no way. Although the time difference is mutual, he can also find time to harass Qiao Yu, but he knows how difficult it is to get Qiao Yu's phone.
This guy seems to like to enable the phone's non-disturbance mode. If he chooses the wrong time, he will not be able to harass Qiao Yu even if he hits it.
"Did you notice the latest news released by Microsoft? They said they were going to release a brand new quantum chip - Majorana today, and they also said that new technologies can disrupt the world's quantum computing landscape. Do you know this new product?"
"Well? Why are you suddenly interested in this? Are you still planning to make hardware?"
"It's not that I'm interested in hardware, well, you may not know yet. Microsoft took the initiative to talk to me about the cooperation in quantum simulation computing. They want to hire me as a technical consultant. Do you know this?"
"Uh... I know." Peter Schultz responded with a little hesitation.
Qiao Yu probably knows the reason.
After all, it not only involves cooperation, but also gossip about him...
"As a result, before we had fully reached an agreement, they suddenly issued an announcement saying that they would release this product. I think they might be provoking me. What do you think? So I want to ask, how much do you know about this quantum chip?"
"This...well, I actually have many friends at Berkeley. If you look at the email address... the condition you put forward, to be honest, is indeed a disaster for Berkeley."
"When is this news? Peter, your friend didn't tell you, and I've forgiven them because of the reaction at Berkeley.
And remove that condition from the cooperation conditions. I only ask them to recover the benefits that were given to Professor Frank over the years. Isn’t this requirement too much?
And it was not because of this incident, but other things that caused me to fail to reach an agreement with Microsoft. Peter, isn’t I a person who likes to take off my anger in my eyes?”
"Ah? Well...I'm sorry about this. In fact, that Professor Frank, that's yours... Oh, forget it. I don't know much about Majorana.
However, as far as I know, this chip is currently mainly used in the laboratory to do some AI collaborative work. Including when we were doing condensed matter mathematics research, we also tested using this chip to do some mathematical verification work.
By the way, this includes the high-dimensional space optimization problem of generalized modal axiom systems. And the main application of Majorana is currently in this area. You should know better than me that before there is no corresponding algorithm for the ecology, quantum chips can do not have much to do at present.
However, there are still many applications in vision planning. The laboratory is also trying to rely on Majorana to generate various synthetic data, try to do real random training, and train complex AI models.
Of course, what I said above is actually still in the research stage. In fact, there are still many technical obstacles during use. For example, memory overflows often occur, and resource limits exceeding the limit and algorithms are incompatible.
However, Majorana is indeed a relatively superior aspect. At least in order to overcome the defects of coherence, this chip is definitely the best. Of course, if you don’t consider that this chip currently only integrates eight qubits.”
Peter Schultz revealed the situation of the chip he knew without reservation.
This efficiency is obviously much higher than that of professors who went to find the papers published by Microsoft, and also allowed Qiao Yu to quickly grasp the key points.
"What you mean is that at present, this chip is not of use yet, right? At least it is not very useful in the current business scenario, and it is not much advanced compared to Google's technology.
Then Microsoft's choice to release this chip at this time is to challenge my authority in the field of quantum computing, right?"
Obviously, Peter Schultz once again failed to keep up with Qiao Yu's thinking pattern.
What he wants to express seems to be that although the quantum chips of Microsoft's generation represent the latest technological direction, they will not pose a threat to Qiao Yu's quantum simulation computing for the time being.
But what Qiao Yu understood was a completely different meaning...
Well, for Peter Schultz, Microsoft is a partner after all...
So after a moment of silence, Peter Schultz couldn't help asking: "Qiao Yu, I don't understand you anymore. What do you want?
If it's money, I think Microsoft should be generous to you. If it's power, I think it's too early to pursue these things at your age...
If it is academic competition, there is no need to be any more. Microsoft is not an academic institution. It does not need to rely on academic achievements to prove itself. In fact, I believe you know this better than anyone else.
If it is because of your family affairs, you have chosen to give up the trouble at Berkeley, which is equivalent to the fact that this matter has passed, so I am really curious, Qiao Yu..."
Speaking of this, Peter Schultz strengthened his tone and asked again: "What the hell do you want?"
Peter Schultz felt that this was not just his doubts, he felt that Qiao Yu might not have thought about this problem clearly.
Otherwise there wouldn't be so many messy ideas.
But obviously he made a wrong judgment because Qiao Yu's answer was simple, straightforward and justified: "Does this still need to be asked? What I want is respect!"
After saying that, it seemed to be to take care of Peter Schultz's mood, Qiao Yu also explained seriously: "Peter, you grew up in a normal family, so you definitely don't understand what the child who grew up in a single-parent family is like me is thinking.
Sensitive, fragile, suspicious, even inferiority, paranoid... and other stereotypes about children from single-parent families are all real. So I care much more about self-esteem than ordinary people. Can you understand me, right?"
Chapter completed!