>> “I believe Wong and Liu want young, technically minded people to understand the importance of keeping semiconductor advances going and to make them want to b

>> “I believe Wong and Liu want young, technically minded people to understand the importance of keeping semiconductor advances going and to make them want to be part of that effort,” Moore says. “They want to show that semiconductor engineering has a career-long future despite much talk of the death of Moore’s Law.” Hardware companies don’t pay well, see salaries at places like Broadcom, Qualcomm, Intel and IBM, at least compared to top software companies (and even compared to jobs such as in accounting or project management). That’s why.