What do you guys think the future of hardware design careers are? ie Asics, SOCs, CPU, Firmware, etc Genuine answers only. Please no trolling (a little is allowed lol) Recent MS EE grad starting new role soon at Base: 100k sign on: 5k Bonus: 7k/year Relo: 12k Location: Portland
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Don’t do ASIC’s, they are going to completely die in the next 10 years. SoC’s and FPGA-SoC’s are what the chip vendors are gearing up to do more long term.
How is SOC different from ASIC?
I think an soc is a more complete system. It can have so many blocks and increased functionality on the same chip. An asic can be as simple as a 4bit binary adder chip or even a nand gate as a complete chip. So I think soc is a subset of asic.
The future of hardware has never been brighter. Every major datacenter company is building custom application-specific hardware for their major applications, and paying near-software wages for it. Custom ML training and inference is huge right now, and the market has not consolidated so there are tons of companies all competing for the same talent pool. There's lots of opportunity outside the traditional players (Intel, NVIDIA, etc), follow the money. TC: 350K at Google HW
Thank you. If you don’t mind. What’s your background, specialty and career path so far. And what do you do for google HW
Would be great if you can share if you can share your career path.
Does your question include firmware too?
Yeah sure
I don't know the answer, I would be interested in finding out too, could you please update your original question to add firmware scope too? Thanks
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I like Asics, they’re great running shoes
I like Asics. Solid brand. I’ve been using their Gel Kayanos for 7 years and was never disappointed.
Any HW that is AI/ML related
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Heterogeneous computing, you need CPU for general purpose, OS and managing other computing devices, FPGA accelerators (video encoding, decoding, packet processing, encryption, compression), GPU for AI (training, gaming), ASIC (computer vision and specific use cases overlapping FPGA), all coexisting in the same platform.
Are you talking about hardware technologies, careers or what?
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