Simpler explanation: it’s grueling work that doesn’t pay market rates. Intel has been the semiconductor industry standard for comp for years, and they’ve lagge

Simpler explanation: it’s grueling work that doesn’t pay market rates. Intel has been the semiconductor industry standard for comp for years, and they’ve lagged in this department for a decade. This has depressed the whole industry’s pay as so many chip companies view Big Blue as the market linchpin to set comp off of. The exception here is for Apple and nVidia - where the work is still pretty grueling, but the pay is excellent. You gotta be the cream of the crop to get in either of those places. The hiring bar for both is high, and getting higher. Source: me. I run a job board for FPGA and RTL engineers.