Will there be new silicon version of nrf52 to fix this APPROTECT loophole

Question

According to this blogpost https://limitedresults.com/2020/06/nrf52-debug-resurrection-approtect-bypass/ the APPROTECT feature to prevent code readout can be circumvent quite easily. What are the plans of Nordic to address that issue? 
 For our project, protecting the firmware is very essential and we planned to use that feature to protect our man year worth of software and to protect keys for signed firmware updates. 
 best regards, 
 Torsten

Hung Bui · Accepted Answer

At this moment we don't have a plan to release a new version of silicon of the nRF52 to prevent this voltage fault infection technique. 
 I just want to emphasise that this attack tampering the voltage condition outside of the normal operation condition of the chip and most of the standard microcontroller circuits don't have protection against this type of attack.

Thomas Peter · Answer

I just found https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/pdf/in_142_v1.1.pdf and other notices that confirm this.

Will there be new silicon version of nrf52 to fix this APPROTECT loophole

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