When I first started as an engineer in the semiconductor industry, we worked on pretty boring electronics. Laptops, portable phones, gaming computers – not the most exciting stuff by today’s standards. Then some smart engineer on the U.S. West Coast took a portable mobile phone and a portable computer, stuffed them into each other and called it a smartphone. It’s basically a data display device. And we were super proud of our smartphones.
And when these data display devices were combined with big storage and big compute in the cloud, well that’s what enabled an on-demand world. A world that allows us to order whatever we want with only a couple of clicks.
