nanxor

In many European countries there are workplaces that only hire people with relevant academic degrees.

A course on functional+logic programming is often placed in the 2nd or 3rd year of a typical European 3-3½ year CS degree.

>I'm a chip architect

Many people with an ECE/CS background have probably had a FPGA + VHDL/Verilog course.

What are some additional skills needed to enter the chip industry?

The semiconductor industry is globalism on steroids.

A single SoC can have multiple IP cores designed in the UK, US, India etc. but also some designed in smaller countries like Israel and Ireland.

Is it possible that high precision/performance analog devices might perform some graphics tasks (e.g. ray tracing) faster than digital computers?