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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 …

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 th…

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 build…

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 b…

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 …

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 compani…

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 hiri…

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

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