  Came across this article via urlLink FutureSalon . This is about the ongoing new things happening in EDA. Haven't gone thru all of it but I know some of you will be delighted to read this. Especially people on islands :D urlLink EDN - From the ashes: The next stage of EDA : "From the ashes: The next stage of EDA Moore's Law is not dead, and the EDA industry is challenged with keeping it profitable. This task requires a change in focus from designing silicon structures to producing systems" And here is urlLink Mark's ,founder of Future Salon, urlLink take on it ...it gives a good overview of "Where we are now" -- where we are in the ongoing Moore's Law saga, the current problems facing the semiconductor industry, and the surprising ways people are changing what they are doing in response.
(The figures are in annoying PDF files, but still worth checking out. ) For example, we keep hearing about how all the hardware design jobs are going to India. But this article talks about the increasing difficulty of digital design, and if this article is to be believed, those jobs going to India are the "dumb" digital design jobs -- jobs done by some guy who went to college and learned Verilog or VHDL, and who understands very little of the underlying semiconductor physics. 
