them thinking that we are a real British Designer company......big up the Brish electronics design sector etc etc!!
That is very TREEZonous.
Thanks...that...is the modus operandi of a massive number of UK electronics co's, as well as many in the Western world.
Nobody does anything about it.
If a company, can buy perfectly good components (not made in the UK, e.g. China), that meet their specifications, and are basically reliable and durable. At considerable cost savings. Then that is typically where companies will source their components from.
It has been like that for hundreds of years.
E.g. The Raspberry PI 4, is designed and manufactured in the UK (if I remember/understand correctly), and costs around £35 retail.
Presumably (some of its parts are from China), but if ALL of its parts had to come from the UK only.
It would probably be considerably more expensive, and significantly worse.
E.g. Because the best UK manufactured microprocessor/microcontroller chips (if there are still any), would probably be significantly slower and more expensive, than the one they currently use.
(Although ironically, because it is ultimately an 'Arm' based cpu, it is basically 'British' designed, although some other countries are also involved).
I'm not sure of the latest/last/best 'pure' UK manufactured cpu.
Perhaps it is the Inmos Transputer cpus ?
From a very long time ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputertl;dr
Would people prefer a powerful/useful £35, somewhat UK/British Raspberry PI 4 ?
Or would they buy a £150 (guesstimate), pure UK manufactured, 8 bit, 1 MHz cpu, 4K Ram version ?
(Call it the RaspberryZX82).
Which is 0.00000000000000000001 times faster, has 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000001 times more Ram.
A hex keypad, so you can type in the monitor every time you boot it up, as it has no (UK availability) for ROM flash storage .
Uses 10 times more power.
And runs, the latest version of
Linux,
Interpreted Basic, hand assembled machine code.