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How many profitable startups are there?

Plenty of chip design done in the US

Why is Intel more American than AMD?

How do all these people immigrate to the US? Is it all family-based? I work in technological field with many more opportunities in the US and have researched how to move there but it seems almost impossible. I know an American who applied for jobs in my country, got an offer and was over within a few months but that doesn't work the other way round.

China is the largest market for chips by a pretty big margin

There are 3 dialects of Irish and a lot of names are pronounced quite differently depending on which dialect you are using. Sometimes one particular variant has caught on across the island and in other cases there are multiple variants in use. https://www.abair.ie/ga gives you an accurate pronunciation of any Irish word in all 3 dialects

Basically all the big semiconductor companies do R&D in Israel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index Not according to this study

You would need several billion to build a fab, a few hundred million might get you a 5nm chip or two

Formal verification is actually heavily used in the semiconductor industry these days

Any particular reason they decided to write the RTL from scratch?

Most big US HW/SW companies do have a significant presence in Europe and some other places like Israel, it's not like Europe has a lack of engineers and scientists capable of building this stuff, they are just mostly working for US companies

Lots of first world countries take in more immigrants per capita than the US

Yeah I've been working in digital ASIC design myself for the last few years since graduating college and the pay is pretty good but I'm trying to plan how to get out of the field because job opportunities are quite limited, you can't just switch companies every few years the way software engineers do, unless you live somewhere like Silicon Valley and I don't want to have to move across the country whenever I want a new job.

Right now is particularly bad though, one of the worst job markets for this field in quite a while, it will pick up at some point

They're fairly competitive compared to the rest of the world. He is also working for a US company who could pay him more if they really wanted to. US salaries are high because the US has a glut of engineering jobs and is also a difficult place to immigrate to (generally requires you to have family ties or a job offer which is not easy to obtain when you might not be granted a work visa and won't realistically be able to start for about 6 months). If the US ever adopted a more lax immigration system in line with the UK, Canada, the EU etc I would expect US engineering salaries to drop.

The job market is already pretty bad in the UK

Sounds like they need a union

It isn't EEs building the likes of Vivado, they hire software engineers to do that stuff

Really depends on what you're thinking of when you say technical

Do you have any examples of the grotesquely racist anti-English rhetoric encouraged by Sturgeon?

I understand this but I think the biggest driver for software salaries is the sheer number of companies that are interested in hiring software engineers. Plenty of hardware companies are very profitable but do not raise their salaries because there is no market pressure to do so as the more limited job market means EEs/embedded engineers do not switch companies nearly as frequently and switching companies is generally the best way to get a substantial salary increase.

This is true, trying to switch from FPGA's/RTL Design to something higher up the stack over the next few months for this reason. My employer does seem to have great difficulty hiring anyone with these skillsets but funnily enough, the salaries never seem to improve.

Not really no, 7 figure roles are few and far between

What is your software-adjacent but not software development job?

>They're prolly doing seriously brainiac next level AI and quantum computing stuff

Not true at all, ad software pays a lot better than "next level AI and quantum computing", unless you're talking about AI for advertising

You heard IshKebab, the entire field of chip design is not very technically challenging, obviously they have the pedigree to back up such a bold statement and are too modest to tell us

>In response to an audience member shouting "Up the 'RA", Gerry Adams famously replied with glee "They haven't gone away you know"

You're talking as if this happened recently and not nearly 30 years ago

>Sinn Fein to this day praises and commemorates former IRA murderers.

So what? How often do unionists have a bad word to say about the British forces that have spent centuries terrorizing and murdering Irish people? How are nationalists supposed to reconcile with people who by and large vote for political parties that do not support the GFA (presumably they would prefer to go back to armed conflict? perhaps the protestant supremacist state formed in 1921?) or turn up en masse to prance about in July with the deeply unpleasant orange order?

Well you clearly know fuck all about the topic then. The British military are guilty of several massacres and civilian murders in Ireland both before and after 1969 and either directly or indirectly through collusion with loyalist paramilitaries.

I'm interested in hearing how you found transitioning from digital design to software development and what did you have to study in order to pass software interviews? I've also been a digital design engineer for the past 3-4 years since graduating but I would like to move into software development for my next job. I have some experience programming and a basic knowledge of CS/software topics but presumably not as much as a CS grad and would have to spend some time learning to close the knowledge gap.