Re:Chip Industry's Fundamental Shifts in 2018
by buckysock on Sunday December 23, 2018 @01:18AM
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It will stay like this for the foreseeable future. Chip design IP is too obscure for the mainstream oss people to force an oss ecosystem. There’s also too much proprietary foundry information needed to even have an oss ecosystem that actually works properly.
Ironically the closedness of chip design tools and foundry information is also what prevents it from truly growing. Entrenched players (cad companies) benefit from this, but the losers are the actual chip design companies. They are bleeding generation of engineers who have forsaken this climate for the more cozy cs oss climate.
Ironically the closedness of chip design tools and foundry information is also what prevents it from truly growing. Entrenched players (cad companies) benefit from this, but the losers are the actual chip design companies. They are bleeding generation of engineers who have forsaken this climate for the more cozy cs oss climate.