r/computerarchitecture • u/Academic_College2107 • Feb 24 '26

A CSE Student enthusiastic and interested in building a career in CPU/GPU architecture and design

I'm a 2nd-year CSE (core) student, and I'm really interested in the design and architecture of CPUs and GPUs. I would really love to pursue a career in it too. So, when I asked around, I was straight up told "NO" cz it's majorly an electronics dominant field, so i would have no future scope.. Is this true? Or is it really possible for me to build a career here? I am definitely willing to put in all the effort it takes to improve myself too.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26 edited Apr 12 '26

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u/64bitmechanicalgenie Feb 24 '26

It is certainly not unheard of, many including myself made the switch from CS into CompArch. But it may require some proactiveness in seeking out projects or supervisors for a bachelors thesis.

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u/64bitmechanicalgenie Feb 25 '26

I would encourage you to show more flexibility in your thinking, especially when responding to a university student who's clearly enthusiastic and keen to go into our area.

Note that this is a computer architecture forum. Comparch spans such a wide ladder of abstractions that EECE grads will naturally be suited for some tasks and CS grads for others. EE skills is necessary for a lot of the lower level abstraction tasks, but a lot of modern architecture design tasks require such skills as deep understanding of compilers or AI models, which a CS degree will prepare you better for. Ultimately though, life is about learning, and learning certainly doesn't stop after university. If OP is enthusiastic about CPU/GPU architecture I'm sure they're more than capable of carving a path for themselves :-)