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I would advise looking at hardware in other FAANG companies. Think hardware is increasingly a differentiator both on the server side and on the client. Saying this as someone who builds data analysis tools and has started looking at what it would take to build accelerators. With Moores law coming to an end I think we will see a hardware renaissance in the coming years, think you are very well placed to capitalize on that.

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Thanks. "has started looking at what it would take to build accelerators" Do you mean HW accelerators?

FPGAs are extraordinarily hard for most software engineers to use effectively. They can offer huge speedups in orders of magnitude but PCIe bit twiddling + VHDL/Verilog might as well be black magic. An EE that can take any part of a generic app written in e.g. Python or Go and speed up the computationally expensive parts is worth their weight in gold. Look into doing some consulting in this area if you are decent at understanding the software aspects. Plenty of software/finance shops would love to ship their own custom ASICs for e.g. Machine Learning if they had the technical know-how. Bridging the gap is the most valuable thing you can offer.

THIS is the kind of advice one hopes to get from friends and industry associates.Thanks for pointers.

Yes sir.

Thanks. The scales have dropped from my eyes!!

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