Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
those countries which do concentrate on certain high value research won't necessarily do so bad:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance...onomic-future/


to use that example of the ipod/iphone/ipad; every single one of them contains a CPU designed by and licensed from ARM holdings, a British company, just as every single one contains a GPU designed by and licensed from Imagination Technologies (powerVR graphics), again a British company.

as do most nokia phones, most android phones, most blackberry's, all palm phones, most smartbooks........................

by way of evidence, from today:
http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=22794
http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=22823
PowerVR has now shipped in 250,000,000 million electronic devices:
http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=22823