All US companies interviewed at the 6th International Components Show in Milan this month claim that the IC market in Italy should reach boom proportions by 1971.
So starts a story in Electronics Weekly's edition of September 24th 1969.
The story continues: 'Equipment makers throughout Italy are engaged at the moment in prototype development and when production models evolve from these, the demand for circuits is going to increase rapidly.'
'Although competition between suppliers has forced the cost of semiconductor devices in Italy down,' concludes the report, 'the market should still reach £11 million".
Yes, that's million with an 'm'!
TOMORROW AFTERNOON: Part 1 of an eight part weekly series on Inventing, Designing, and Marketing the first microprocessors. In the words of: Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin, and Masatoshi Shima.
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