Industry Trends
Impact of Design Complexity Coupled with Shrinking Time-to-Market Windows
- Broad range of skills needed to complete designs
e.g. analog design, RF, high-speed digital design, communications protocols, multi-chip, video coding, compression, 3D rendering
- Need for specific expertise in-house short lived in many areas
- Not everyone wants to live in Silicon Valley
- Manufacturing economies are driving outsourcing model
Major shift towards shared, remote expertise and outsourcing of many aspects of design and manufacturing will accelerate