Security engineers described a counterintuitive strategy: pay teams to attack the chips they design to find critical weaknesses before adversaries do. The report profiles labs that inject electromagnetic signals, measure power fluctuations and strip silicon layers to emulate hostile actors and nation-state attackers. For university researchers and campus technology officers, the story underscores rising demand for hardware security expertise, funding for adversarial testing facilities, and curriculum development in applied cybersecurity and trustworthy computing.