FYI, the toolchain is shit because: 1. The optimization problems that EDA tools have to solve are about as hard as it gets - NP-hard and sigma 2p problems at a

FYI, the toolchain is shit because: 1. The optimization problems that EDA tools have to solve are about as hard as it gets - NP-hard and sigma 2p problems at a massive scale. I'd argue that these are among the hardest optimization problems in modern computer science today. 2. The number of people with the CS + EE training to develop this software is decreasing. Not a lot of people are getting PhDs in EDA anymore, because: 3. Regular software houses (Google, Amazon, etc.) have about 2-3x the comp as EDA companies. Trust me I've seen a lot of incredibly smart EDA people jump to Google and more than double their salary overnight. I doubt Intel is going to shift the balance here. It's not easy to develop a fast and efficient SP&R flow.