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To: PKRBKR who wrote (784464)	5/12/2014 5:20:30 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB PKRBKR Respond to of 1573980

Pkrbrk, I used to work for this board's namesake so I know all about the end of "Silicon" Valley. There will always be a need for specialty silicon. The rise of SoC and integration means that there will be plenty of permutations for hardware design guys like me. Look at Apple, for instance. They chose to grow their own hardware design team rather than rely on "commodity" SoC because they can closely pair the hardware and software into their own "walled garden" ecosystem. Even AMD is finding some measure of self-sustainability by integrating CPU and graphics. If hardware is becoming commoditized, then everything can run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon. Or eventually a MediaTek SoC. That's obviously not going to happen, because in a digital world run by a huge network of devices, there's enough diversity in design to keep us hardware engineers employed for the next decade or two. Tenchusatsu P.S. - Of course, it would be nice to be part of a software start-up that gets bought out for a few billion. Thing is, though, you only hear about the success stories, i.e. the "one percent," not the "ninety-nine percent" of software startups that are DoA.