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> There are companies where algorithms are not commodities And there is an entire industry! Embedded (but not the Raspberry-pi kind of embedded that is similar
by scoutt 6y ago
> There are companies where algorithms are not commodities
And there is an entire industry! Embedded (but not the Raspberry-pi kind of embedded that is similar to desktop).
Try to do a dead reckoning system, or anything related to real-time gesture/motion analysis. Try reading, processing, mixing and outputting audio in real time. Or any DSP related stuff. What about FPGA, ASICs, etc.?
Why oh why is the embedded industry so easily forgotten? It's not all cloud, food apps, SaaS and Electron, ya know?
Edit to add: all the above with the limited resources of embedded, that forces you to improve your algorithms.
- vanderZwan 6y ago> Why oh why is the embedded industry so easily forgotten? It's not all cloud, food apps, SaaS and Electron, ya know? Because the other industry is inherently linked to the internet. It's like the media telling you that the media is very important, or your brain telling you that it's the most interesting organ in your body (I forget which comedian I stole that from).
- pseudosudoer 6y agoDepends on the embedded ecosystem. STM has tons of free software packages for their products that remove the need to write drivers and a variety of algorithms from scratch. Albeit not the same, Xilinx and Altera have a plethora of FPGA IP that can be licensed/bought, although I can see the merit in a custom implementation here to save money.