No, chip making got boring - essentially it's a month a year of doing fun creative stuff and 11 months a year making sure that it makes timing and is perfect before you tape out. When you're coding on the other hand you can get something new working every day. I chose to go back to software.

However having said that I find myself designing silicon again, change is good for the brain I guess

Hardware people tend to think in terms of netlists and pipelining so they have to worry about parallism on every clock