The doyen of the UK computing industry says that a hi-tech future will leave Britain no choice but to turn to Europe
deally, it would be a dual listing again,” says Hauser. “It was very good to see that even our technologically illiterate political elite, including the prime minister, has woken up to the fact thatis actually a great national asset. And probably the only company in the UK that has global relevance in the technology space.”
, which was sold to thousands of UK schools. Acorn got into difficulties and was eventually bought up, but Arm, which was set up in 1990, surged. As a teenager Hauser was warned that physics would open up good jobs, but that he would never make money. That has not proved entirely correct. When Acorn went public he reckons he and Curry were the 10th and 11th richest people in the UK.
Of his current investments, he reserves particular praise for Graphcore, a would-be rival to Nvidia for artificial intelligence chips; Paragraf, which makes sheets ofLearning about companies “keeps me young,” Hauser says. A scientist’s excitement shines through when discussing the details of the technologies, such as the way Xampla copies the process used by spiders to make their silk, or the intricacies of quantum effects.
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