Besides the fact that it would be discovered by others regardless of whether it was disclosed, there was a more important reason: Boss Huang himself needed to proactively disclose the secret of the chip.
Countless facts and experiences had proven one thing: closed-door development would not lead to good results. To give the quintal computer chip a brighter future and development, more people and companies must be involved.
This was similar to how Apple and Google actively disclosed their system development tools and various specific data, inviting companies worldwide to develop software for them. This ultimately led to the duopoly of the smartphone market.
Even if other operating systems emerged, it would be almost impossible to break this pattern because these two systems had accumulated too many applications, drawing in almost all users. It would be too difficult for third-party systems to rise.
In fact, if Apple hadn't made a mistake back then, there might not have been an Android system in the world, leaving only iOS as the sole smartphone system.
Until around 2014, the Android system was synonymous with trash, plagued by lag, bugs, and requiring a reinstallation every six months or so. Otherwise, the phone would become so slow that even tapping the screen would cause a freeze.
During the same period, the iOS system was the epitome of smoothness. Starting from the iPhone 3GS, Apple's system was remarkably perfect, with almost no lag, like a flawless diamond, forming a stark contrast with Android.
It was precisely because of its system that Apple later achieved the miracle of the strongest smartphone and a market capitalization of trillions.
However, due to its inherent arrogance, or perhaps its championed closed-loop design, Apple's iOS system was never provided to any other manufacturer, and only Apple's own devices could use Apple's iOS system.
My guess is that they wanted to leverage the smoothness of the iOS system to convert all users into Apple users, making them buy only Apple phones and completely eliminating the Android phone market.
But Apple's consistently high pricing meant that not everyone could afford an Apple phone, and the market naturally required low-priced smartphones to cater to the needs of the majority of consumers.
Therefore, even though Android was terrible back then, all major smartphone manufacturers had to reluctantly continue using the Android system. This was because Android was the only mature, free, and open-source mobile system available to all manufacturers. They had no choice but Android.
As a result, Android system entered its seventh generation, finally resolving the lagging issue. After the eighth generation, more manufacturers introduced customized Android systems, bringing the stability and smoothness of the Android system to a level that almost rivaled iOS. At this point, Apple had completely lost its opportunity to seize more market share by relying on its system advantage.
This is why Apple's phone sales have been in decline since 2016, and the dominant share of the entire market has been taken by the Android system.
Let's assume that if Apple had made its iOS system free and open-source back then, allowing all other phone manufacturers to use iOS as their own mobile system for free, would the iOS system have completely eliminated Android and become the sole mobile system in the world?
Then, Apple could have naturally promoted the iTunes store, along with the iOS system, to all phones, becoming the sole designated software store for all mobile phones.
As long as Apple, while opening up its system, stipulated that manufacturers using iOS must be bound to the iTunes store, forbidden to develop their own system stores, and then shared a portion of the 30% store revenue with the phone manufacturers, allowing them to profit from the iTunes store revenue.
Then, the iTunes store could have also unified the entire market. In the future, all smartphones worldwide would only be able to download various software through the iPad store. Although there would still be jailbreaking, statistics show that 90% of Apple users do not know how to jailbreak. Only less than 20% of Apple users would install and download software through jailbroken methods, while the remaining over 80% of Apple users would honestly pay for software downloads.
And the unified iTunes store, just from the commission on mobile game top-ups alone every day, could have generated unimaginable massive revenue.
Unfortunately, Apple was ultimately a bit too closed-off. Otherwise, the smartphone market would truly have had no room for other system vendors.
Boss Huang, naturally, keenly understood this. Therefore, not only would the future Tianzhou terminal system not be exclusively shared by Jiangnan Group, but it would become a free, open-source terminal system, providing various system development tools for all manufacturers to use.
Even all future Zixiao chips, and indeed all quintal computer chips, except for a small portion of military chips developed for certain undisclosed entities, Boss Huang would open-source all of them, publicly releasing their architectures and code on the internet without reservation, and licensing them for free to other manufacturers.
Boss Huang even planned to have Jiangnan University open dozens of quintal training classes. All programmers could enroll and study quintal courses for free. With the help of professional quintal teachers, they could quickly master the methods and principles of quintal programming, thereby quickly becoming proficient in using the quintal language, which would eventually be named Xing language, a quintal chip-supporting computer language programmed entirely using Chinese characters.
This would also allow other manufacturers to develop more equipment suitable for quintal chips, targeting the characteristics of quintal chips. Of course, Jiangnan Group would also completely open the sales of tetral chips, and all companies could purchase quintal chips from Jiangnan Group at a reasonable price.
In this way, Jiangnan Group would have a plan to challenge the binary chip market, and even the possibility of completely replacing binary chips with quintal chips.
Otherwise, if Jiangnan Group remained complacent and kept the secrets of its quintal chips to itself, no matter how powerful its chips were, others would still prefer to use binary chips and not quintal chips.
At best, Jiangnan Group would become a company like Apple. While iOS might seem very impressive, it would only be used by Apple itself from beginning to end, lacking market penetration.
In fact, even if Jiangnan Group completely disclosed the relevant data for quintal chips, whether it could defeat binary chips... no, it was even a question whether it could snatch a piece of the pie from binary chips.
After all, all computer professionals in the world today rely on binary systems and study binary knowledge. Jiangnan Group's promotion of quintal would undoubtedly threaten the livelihoods of countless people.
It was like in ancient times, when everyone relied on studying Confucianism and taking the imperial examinations to become officials, and you suddenly tried to forcefully promote Mohist philosophy, advocating for Mohist science to replace Confucianism and become the dominant school of thought in China.
Even if you were the emperor, the most likely outcome would be a mysterious fall into water, followed by death from a chill.
To get back to the point, when they heard Huang He tell them that the chip was made using quintal technology, all the reporters felt that their headline-worthy shocks for the entire year had been used up.
Jiangnan Group had actually developed quintal chips. What were they thinking? How could they have such a miraculous idea?
Even Christophe Galvin on stage was full of shock, and even admired Huang He. It seemed that losing to quintal chips made the defeat somewhat acceptable.
"Alright, next I would like to solemnly introduce the head of our Zixiao chip team, Professor Zuo Sicheng, who will personally explain the relevant information about the quintal chip!" Under Huang He's introduction, Zuo Sicheng, who was incredibly excited, walked to the stage, accepting the countless flashes of cameras.
Because Boss Huang had clearly stated that the quintal chip was developed under Zuo Sicheng's leadership, he was undoubtedly the father of the quintal chip.
Regardless of the ultimate fate of the quintal chip, Zuo Sicheng was destined to become a sensation, his name would dominate all media headlines from the next second, and he would become a name known to everyone in the electronics industry.
Even if the quintal chip eventually became an unwanted piece of junk, Zuo Sicheng would still be a titan in the industry. The moment he developed the Zixiao chip, and Boss Huang presented him to the public, his status in the academic world became unshakeable.
Zuo Sicheng began introducing his chip in a slightly excited voice. Of course, the introduction was very general, only briefly explaining the chip's architecture, the principle of its computation, and some basic programming principles.
These were all very general concepts, accompanied by a large number of technical terms. The reporters were mostly confused, while only the professionals showed expressions of sudden realization, immense respect, and eagerness to learn.
Through Zuo Sicheng's introduction, these professionals basically confirmed that the Zixiao chip could indeed achieve the calculated performance data. This was because quintal chip technology was inherently superior to binary chip technology. The Zixiao chip launched by Jiangnan Group was indeed the world's unique and strongest microchip. The only problem was that, except for Jiangnan Group, no other company or individual seemed to be able to use this chip, as everyone was essentially blind in the face of quintal technology.