So I channelled the spirit of the late, great ‘Mrs Merton’ in her interview with the lovely Debbie McGee, to ask UK semiconductor industry veteran Haydn Povey what it was about the billions of dollars lost due to hacking that made him think that the world has a problem with cybersecurity.

And he’s the man to ask, having spent the majority of his 30-year career in the UK semiconductor industry helping develop secure microchips capable of withstanding ever more devious cyber attacks.

Now CEO of his second semiconductor cybersecurity startup, SCI Semiconductor, Haydn talks about how the increasing sophistication of cyber attacks, coupled with the ever-increasing proliferation and complexity of edge computing devices, is challenging the semiconductor industry to develop an inherently secure computer architecture.

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