Excellent description, I wished I could've pushed your comment higher. People are always shocked when I tell how tiny is the semi industry, but it really is.

Excellent description, I wished I could've pushed your comment higher. People are always shocked when I tell how tiny is the semi industry, but it really is. Besides the super-concentration of semi manufacturing which starts to get more coverage, designs needs some exposure too. When Apple bought PA Semi, it went rather unnoticed, but people didn't know that the amount of logic designers of a such calibre who can design cores like ZEN, or Firestorm is probably less than 100 in the whole of North America. Sounds very dramatic, but America is less than 100 senior logic designers away from getting out of design business too.