[1] With Frank Wanlass as director of research and engineering, GMe was the first company to design, fabricate, and sell MOS integrated circuits.
[2] In 1964, Wanlass demonstrated a single-chip 16-bit shift register he designed, with an incredible (for the time) 120 transistors on a single chip.
The task proved to be much more difficult than expected, and GMe was left almost insolvent.
They remarketed the system as the Philco 3900, but by the time it was ready for market, a less-expensive alternative had appeared.
[4] Several members of the GMe team would go on to found Electronic Arrays and produce a six-chip calculator system that was successful in the early 1970s.