Every device needs analog
Phones, cars, wearables and factories all need chips that touch the real world: chips that manage power, read sensors and turn signals into data.
Digital chips do the computing. Analog, power and mixed-signal chips connect that computing to everything around it. Without them, nothing switches on.
Digital design
Largely automated. Software tools turn a description into a finished chip, and teams move from idea to silicon quickly.
Analog design
Still crafted largely by hand. Every new chip takes skilled engineers a long time to design, check and refine.