[nadam]

The hard line between hardware and software is also fading in my opinion. I mean hardware is mostly also software in a sense. The difference between 'hardware' and 'software' is smaller nowadays than the difference between 'business software' and 'low-level software' I think.

[ovi256]

>I mean hardware is mostly also software in a sense

Sure, in a theoretical sense, hardware is software frozen in silicon, sometimes even analog silicon. However, the economics of software and hardware businesses couldn't be more different, and that's the point of the article.

Furthermore, low-level software is probably to be tied to the hardware biz from an economics standpoint.

[blackguardx]

I think you are forgetting about board-level analog and RF electronics. FPGAs and digital ICs are mostly designed with hardware descriptor languages which one might call software, but analog and RF electronics remain very much in the hardware realm.