Leng Zhiwen was quite professional, spending a full hour introducing the various novel tools and software she had used on this Celestial Sphere.
Besides those mentioned, there were Kingsoft WPS suite for word processing, Quark for consulting detailed information, Qidian for reading novels, Meitu for photo editing, Baishitong for paying various living expenses, and Xiaobainiu for purchasing tickets...
Leng Zhiwen introduced over fifty different software applications at once, covering almost every aspect that humans could solve through electronic devices. Their comprehensiveness far surpassed the software of the iPhone 4 era, reaching the software coverage of 2020.
This was the result of Boss Huang spending hundreds of millions of dollars, and the year-long labor of all students at Jiangnan University.
Some might find this exaggerated. After all, even in another world, no mobile phone company would create so many functional apps covering all fields.
These should have been products developed by creating a software store and then handing them over to software developers. Jiangnan Group doing it themselves would be a thankless task.
Huang He actually understood this, but the core of the problem was that the Celestial Sphere terminal used a pentary system. This meant that apart from Jiangnan Group itself, no other company in the world had the capability to develop software for the Celestial Sphere terminal. To give the Celestial Sphere terminal comprehensive functions, self-development became inevitable.
This was the price that had to be paid for using the pentary system.
And not only that, but almost none of the first batch of Jiangnan University graduates would be abandoned, as they were the only students in the world proficient in pentary programming.
They would all eventually be assigned to a company called "Celestial Sphere Software," specifically responsible for developing various applications for Celestial Sphere, allowing Celestial Sphere to offer more comprehensive services.
Of course, the most important task of this company was to help various games migrate platforms, assisting them in developing pentary platform versions of games to enrich the Celestial Sphere terminal's game library... Currently, the games that could be played on the Celestial Sphere terminal were only around fifty. Although almost all of them were masterpieces, their absolute number was still too small. Compared to the total number of over 200,000 games in the 00 Game Center, they were like stars in the sky.
Relying on game companies to proactively develop pentary terminal games was clearly impossible. Therefore, these tasks could only be undertaken by Jiangnan Group itself, investing heavily in capital and manpower.
It was estimated that for several years to come, every graduate of Jiangnan University would be assigned to Celestial Sphere Software. Boss Huang had decided that even if they had to do it themselves, they would ensure that the Celestial Sphere terminal would never be controlled by software vendors!
Of course, this would consume a huge amount of capital for Jiangnan Group. A conservative estimate of 500 million yuan in annual development costs would be necessary, until a large number of companies worldwide possessed the capability to develop pentary systems, after which this situation might end.
Meanwhile, the reporters and audience below were stunned. Initially, many reporters believed that this Celestial Sphere was merely an evolved version of a mobile phone. After all, both Apple's iPhone and Google's Android had claimed their products were epoch-making, but in actual experience, they were worse than mobile phones.
However, as Leng Zhiwen spent an hour introducing the various functional software on this phone, the reporters gradually began to agree with Boss Huang's words.
This was indeed not a mobile phone, but a personal terminal that could help humans handle daily affairs, providing them with great convenience and freedom. It was indeed a product beyond its time, provided that it could smoothly run the various software they mentioned, as Leng Zhiwen promoted.
But in the eyes of the reporters, this was an impossible feat, a mere promotional gimmick. The more professional the reporter, the more they believed this.
This was because professional reporters were keenly aware of the current state of development of micro-computer chips.
The functions and computing power currently displayed by Celestial Sphere were considered very high-end computing power even for computer chips, surpassing 70% of computers globally.
Let alone placing such computing power into a small micro-device powered by a lithium battery.
As mentioned earlier, the computing power a mobile phone could provide largely depended on its battery and its heat dissipation capabilities.
It was a simple principle: chip operation required electricity. The more data processed, the more electricity consumed, and the higher the heat generated.
For example, current computers relied on a power supply of at least 600 watts to ensure such a level of computation.
However, a portable mobile phone could not carry a power supply and could only rely on a battery. Yet, the limited battery capacity had to support at least 10 hours of standby and about two hours of usage. This meant that the amount of electricity supplied per second would inevitably be very small, insufficient to meet the demands of computer chips.
But a qualified smartphone must possess these functions. Therefore, the only way to achieve this was to continuously strengthen the phone's chips, using the finest circuits possible to connect the transistors within the phone chips. The finer the circuits, the less power consumed. The more transistors, the stronger the computing power.
Thus, the computing power of a mobile phone chip was almost entirely dependent on lithography machines. The finer the lines the lithography machine could etch, the less power the mobile phone chip would consume, and the less heat it would generate.
Although humans had already introduced a new generation of lithography machines that could surpass the previous 50-nanometer limit, they could not yet be put into large-scale mass production. As a result, both Apple and Google currently used chips manufactured with lithography machines close to 50 nanometers, with their computing power limited to that level.
This was why Apple and Google's major product launches had faltered. Many professional reporters unanimously believed that Apple and Google had been too hasty and rapid in their progress, pursuing more functions and continuously increasing computing power. However, their chips could not meet these demands, ultimately leading to frequent system lags in mobile devices.
As for the subsequent patches released by these two companies to optimize lag, professional analysts had already released detailed videos to explain that these so-called patches were essentially a foolish attempt to improve fluidity by reducing computing power.
It was like a doorway that could only accommodate people up to one meter tall, preventing many normal people around 1.7 meters from entering.
Instead of raising the height of the doorway to allow normal people of 1.7 meters to enter, they required everyone entering to stoop, bend their heads, or even crawl in on all fours. This was utterly inhumane.
These were facts that people within the industry generally knew. However, Apple and Google had successively spent a large amount of public relations fees, enlisting the media to help them suppress this information tightly, otherwise, it would have caused another huge controversy.
Through these facts, the reporters present also identified the limits of micro-computer devices powered by batteries. Therefore, when they saw this so-called terminal device launched by Jiangnan Group, which possessed so much performance, more than ten times that of Apple and Google, they all felt that Boss Huang was bragging.
After all, Apple used Samsung chips, and Google used Qualcomm chips. Could Jiangnan Group also produce microchips superior to these two?
With this thought, the reporters stared intently at Boss Huang on stage.
After all, Boss Huang had said earlier that after the beautiful lady finished introducing the software of the Celestial Sphere terminal, he would introduce the hardware of the Celestial Sphere terminal in detail. They were very interested to know which manufacturer's microchips Jiangnan Group was using.
Of course, even if they had reached a cooperation agreement with Intel and used Intel's microchips, it would not be successful, because Intel did not produce such high-performance microchips!
Therefore, they were very interested to know where Jiangnan Group had obtained the chips. Hopefully, they would not joke about developing their own chips.
"Alright, thank you, Miss Leng Zhiwen, for giving us this excellent presentation. I'll tell you all now that Miss Leng Zhiwen has been confirmed as the global super brand ambassador for Celestial Sphere phones. The endorsement fee is 10 million yuan. You can go to finance to collect your payment later!" Boss Huang said cheerfully. Leng Zhiwen's face immediately showed a satisfied smile upon hearing this, and she happily went off stage to collect her money.
"Damn, is this a tactic to directly announce the endorsement fee?" These words surprised the reporters again. There was actually a tactic of announcing endorsement fees on the spot! Huang He was indeed very good at playing these games.
"Isn't a 10 million yuan endorsement fee too much? And where did this female celebrity come from? I really don't remember any female celebrity named Leng Zhiwen. What qualifications does she have to receive a 10 million yuan endorsement fee? Could she be Boss Huang's mistress? Does anyone remember a celebrity named Leng Zhiwen?"
"No way, there's only one celebrity with the surname Leng in the industry, and that's our superstar Leng Zhiwen. She..." This reporter's words suddenly got stuck in his throat, and he couldn't say anything more.