My company builds memory ICs that sometimes sit beside the ASIC or FPGA on an HFT card. The bandwidth & latency numbers didn't surprise me, but the cost of power certainly did. No wonder customers are always crawling up our butt on power consumption.
In our original job post, we had specified that the ideal candidate would, "not have more than 12 years of MANAGEMENT experience." We UNDERSTAND that this could be misunderstood to indicate that we do not value experienced people. As you can see from the seniority in our team however, this is far from the truth. The intent here was to indicate that we are looking for a "hands-on" VP of Engineering. Someone who has coded in the last decade and can solve issues themselves (rather than asking their engineering manager to then delegate it to a developer :).
Don't take my word for it, check out the people who work at my company - 500friends.com/team. 50%+ are 30+, and 25%+ are 38+
My first job after grad school with at Harris Semiconductor. We were selling RTX processors which natively ran Forth instructions. (The architecture was completely stack-based.)
I agree that Forth is a liability today. I could see it being used as an introductory language - in junior high school, for example - but not much beyond that.
