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Ezequiel Gonzalez's avatar

To me the biggest problem has been since the 80s the shift to make this technology funded by Americans nd ten capture by PE then farmed out to cheap cost labor. Say you want to use CADENCE and even down to MATLAB you are forced to pay enormous SW cost. The hardware is so expensive while in other countries it’s incredibly cheap to get into IC/FPGA etc design. I can walk down the streets of these other nations and purchase a $50k/month SW what someone in China it’s for $5. Our elites priced us out. That’s the end of it.

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nemo's avatar

Your reasoning in #2 doesn't really convince me. It doesn't make sense why you would IEEE survey as a comparison when Levels collects data on hardware engineering salaries as well.

If you navigate to Level's hardware engineering section you can see that new grads make 70-80k less than software engineers, and a staff hardware engineer at Qualcomm for example makes half of what a FAANG engineer makes.

If you are a student what sounds better: make 250k/yr in 3 years, or make 250k/yr in 8 years?

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