Comment Convergence is happening (Score 1) 105
I was trained in college as a HW guy, did a few boards and ASICs, and now I'm a SW guy. Hardware is increasingly done in ASIC's / programmable gate arrays, and PLD's which are now written in programming languages like Verilog and VHDL. It's much like software, but massively parallel. With machines coming with more and more cores now, the differences are shrinking rapidly. The real difference is that it costs hundreds of $k to compile the final package in silicon. ;-)