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Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems

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snarkysparky:
Analog electronics is relegated to smaller and smaller portions of the hardware by pin count so to speak.  After digitization the math and software guys do the rest.   

Learn the math and software!!!

AndyC_772:
It's an amusing irony that it's Intel highlighting this issue and complaining about it; they're as complicit as anyone in the trend for consumer electronics to become less and less accessible to the curious with each passing year.

When I was in my teenage years, deciding upon a career path, it was the age of the 'proper' home computer - endlessly adaptable, expandable, upgradable and modifiable by anyone with a soldering iron and the will to do something cool. My first non-trivial project was a device to record and play digital (sampled) audio on a BBC micro; it taught me about address and data buses, multiplexing, decoding, signal integrity, power supplies, device drivers, interrupt handling, and the sheer joy of showing off something I'd created from scratch.

Today's young people simply don't have that entry point into the profession. The modern PC is kind-of-sort-of-open-ish in theory, but everything interesting is integrated into a couple of ICs, and just try getting hold of the real, complete, *full* data sheets for those.

Looking at you squarely in the eyes without even the tiniest hint of sympathy, Intel. While you're at it, you could start supplying distributors with FPGAs again.

AndyBeez:

--- Quote from: Circlotron on July 18, 2022, 10:31:03 pm ---At least we have people in universities doing Gender Studies.
They will save us all.

--- End quote ---
Not forgetting the most popular science subject studied in UK universities; sport science.

Whales:

--- Quote from: AndyC_772 on July 19, 2022, 08:06:10 am ---It's an amusing irony that it's Intel highlighting this issue and complaining about it; they're as complicit as anyone in the trend for consumer electronics to become less and less accessible to the curious with each passing year.

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Indeed.  Companies want their products to be magic to users, not comprehensible technology.  This bites them in the arse much later on.

madires:

--- Quote from: snarkysparky on July 19, 2022, 12:27:05 am ---Analog electronics is relegated to smaller and smaller portions of the hardware by pin count so to speak.  After digitization the math and software guys do the rest.   

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That would imply more bloatware. :scared:

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