I would have to disagree on the statement made about Verification. Most of the work is in verification, hence therefore most people end up doing it no matter if they were top of their class. In fact, i know many highly smart individuals who have only work in verification.
Kay seem to be a very smart guy, however lacks understanding on full ASIC product life cycle. Throughout the conversation, he made statements that were ambiguous or flat-out wrong. For instance, claiming that the reason XXX company's chip was delayed was due to an escape of a bug....While that may be true or false, there's always more to a delay of a chip. Ranging from poor initial planning, last minute features, process technology yielding issues, etc.
I would have to disagree on the statement made about Verification. Most of the work is in verification, hence therefore most people end up doing it no matter if they were top of their class. In fact, i know many highly smart individuals who have only work in verification.
Kay seem to be a very smart guy, however lacks understanding on full ASIC product life cycle. Throughout the conversation, he made statements that were ambiguous or flat-out wrong. For instance, claiming that the reason XXX company's chip was delayed was due to an escape of a bug....While that may be true or false, there's always more to a delay of a chip. Ranging from poor initial planning, last minute features, process technology yielding issues, etc.