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I think embedded programming is similar to games programming -- it’s difficult due to the performance constraints and niche skills required (low-level I/O, 3D g

I think embedded programming is similar to games programming -- it’s difficult due to the performance constraints and niche skills required (low-level I/O, 3D graphics), but also relatively badly paid. Edit to add: admittedly for different reasons; in gaming I think it’s that the supply of programmers outstrips demand, as every other new graduate dreams of being a games programmer. I think the cultural shift is partly just people voting with their feet and going where the money is.

ipnon 5y ago
America certainly has the engineering talent, it's really the manufacturing base that has been decimated. In some sense this migration was necessary for the iPhone and web app revolutions, Web 2.0. Perhaps we'll see embedded engineering and manufacturing return to America once web and mobile application development becomes over saturated. Already there seems to be a struggle for normal new grads to enter these fields.