Dad jeans, big paychecks: hardware engineers are winning the AI boom

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (right) battles for control of the ball while playing polo on a Segway's in Silicon Valley in 2004. Jose Carlos Fajardo/mct/ZUMAPRESS/Reuters A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here. For decades in Silicon Valley, hardware engineers were the overlooked nerds of tech. They wore dad jeans, clunky tennis shoes, and quietly designed chips while software engineers soaked up the ...