btw We should bang the drum about the ARM architecture for CPUs.
It was developed by a British company - Acorn computers -in the 1980s to be used in their Acorn Computers.
But the "ARM" company was spun off as a separate company and the ARM CPU is now used in millions of devices all over the world, in devices like Smartphones, Tablets etc
About 95% of all smartphones use ARM CPUs, about 35% of digital televisions use ARM CPUs and so on.
And it was a British invention.
More here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture