On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:15:50 -0500, flipper wrote:

T.I. made similar 'chips', and there is debate as to whether theirs or
Micrologic's was 'first', but their early production was entirely
consumed by NASA and the military so many consider that not
'commercially available'.


The "first IC" is not segregated by the market it targeted, ya dope.

The TI chip was the Fairchild design. TI fabbed it.