Janick Bergeron was sold to Designware

For this, you guys will see your fate as an ASIC design/verification Engineer, i.e., You will die sooner or later within 5-10 years! The jobs are moving to India, China, ..., better be prepared for another big career transition at your 40s unless you dont care leaving North America.


http://www.synopsis.com/news/announce/press2003/snps_ip_qualis_pr.html

This is the classical business cycle. In the consolidation phase some companies are bought by others. The next cycle as you predict is the use of the products in low cost of living areas. This backfires on the companies because in these areas the laws are not enforced as well and they buy one copy of the program and use it on many computers.

FYI, Dont forget what the engineering and engineer are all about.
Few IC designer engineers are working 100% for fun and loved to work overtime.
IMHO, most of them are doing this as a way to make a living and earn big bucks.
On the forum, it seems tons of people are eagle to search for and learn this or that, but most of these peoples are just students or new grads from China.
How many people who are working in industry are still hungry for those knowledge? I will put a big question mark on it!

Cliff Cummings are looking for students to teach verilog, the papers he wrote was a strong weapon to gain fames for his business.

Ben Cohen, as some of the other techies did, began to sell his VHDL books as a publisher.

Can you persuade yourself that you are working just for fun only? Give me a break. If your lunch box are gone aboard, are you going to follow it or make another one on your own?

sweesw said:

For this, you guys will see your fate as an ASIC design/verification Engineer, i.e., You will die sooner or later within 5-10 years! The jobs are moving to India, China, ..., better be prepared for another big career transition at your 40s unless you dont care leaving North America.


http://www.synopsis.com/news/announce/press2003/snps_ip_qualis_pr.html

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this field will become a traditional industry in the next few years, as the pioneering concept will not be leading the market any more, to make reasonable profit in more stable pace are the most IC company planning for. so they will of course move to china, india.

look! the IC stands for India China.

I seriously doubt that...

I study beside a great deal of Indian and Chinese students and for the most part they aren't any different from those in my own country (Scotland). They certainly aren't as supremely intelligent or hard working as many may think.

People are always worried that in the future all jobs will move East; thinking that somehow the people there are more qualified to do the job than you are. Indeed, that may be the case (and it is the case for the large numbers of unskilled call center jobs that are migrating over there), however if you are skilled in what you do you will be an asset -regardless of where in the world you are.

I think that in the world today there is simply more competition for jobs, whereas previously it was a pretty much specialised business. The key to a successful employment is there to become specialised; a key player that deserves the high wages paid to them. At the end of the day, next-generation devices (large scale SoC) will always require specialisation determining their overall architecture, even if it means that the VHDL or Verilog Code Monkeys are half way around the world implementing it.

It is usually seen that only verification jobs are moved out. So there is always shortage of communication in the projects, resulting in degrading quality. Probably sooner or later moving out only the verification activity may be stooped or probably the entire project might be moved away.