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by blackguardx 5355 days ago
Electronics and hardware are the same thing. I'm a hardware engineer and I design electronics. The term hardware could also be used to describe things like nuts and bolts but but that isn't a common usage in engineering.
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So is the guy I'm working with but he is a couple of layers above the transistors...more into FPGA/Systems/Logic CAD.

I understand your point; only wondering why use 'hardware' and not 'electronics' - from a business development perspective. Perhaps it points to future plans.

We real hardware people don't take too kindly to FPGA types declaring themselves to be hardware people. They're really only initializing a stinkin' big pile of look-up tables anyway.

You get to be hardware when you use a soldering iron :P

Gett there...slowly but surely!!