@ipg Another fun UK fact: As a historical legacy, all communications ICs manufactured in the UK have little doors fabricated as MEMS systems. This is so when data arrives to the chip, it has to "knock" on the door. This is a reference to the State Opening of Parliament, where the House of Commons famously slams the door in the face of the Usher of the Black Rod. It's supposed to symbolise the idea the Commons are independent from the Sovereign, and goes back to when King Charles I tried to arrest five Members of Parliament, but was not let in.

Some question the practice of artificially enforcing an arbitrary ritual which does nothing but give the illusion of the controller being securely in the hands of the people who depend on it, but we don't manufacture many ICs ourselves anyway