
From chip design to codebreaking, the UK has produced some genuinely influential tech firms. Rank these British tech success stories by how much you think they've shaped the wider world.
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ARM Holdings
ARM's processor architectures sit inside nearly every smartphone on the planet. A quiet giant that made Cambridge a serious name in global semiconductors.

DeepMind
Founded in London and now owned by Google, DeepMind's AlphaGo and AlphaFold breakthroughs reshaped how the world thinks about artificial intelligence.

Dyson
James Dyson's engineering-led approach turned household appliances into design objects and built a genuinely global British brand.
Raspberry Pi
Born in Cambridge to get kids coding, the Pi became a worldwide phenomenon used in classrooms, hobby projects and industrial kit alike.

Sage Group
Often overlooked, Sage has been a FTSE 100 mainstay and a serious global player in business software for decades.
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