Autonetics introduces its first four commercial integrated circuits from its new advanced microelectronics fabrication facility.

Three of the devices are MOS LSI devices, including two high capacity shift registers, and a 16 channel multiplexer. The fourth chip is a special Silicon-on-Sapphire high-speed read-only memory device.

The chips were initially created for Autonetics' own in-house contract product development work, but had general enough utility that it was decided to make them available for purchase on the open market. No information has yet been found with regard to the part numbers and pricing for these devices.

In July of 1967, Autonetics announced that it was going to be producing custom LSI devices for its own use, downplaying any notion that the company would be producing custom chips for other companies. While downplaying entering the business of design and fabrication services for outside customers, this announcement foreshadows the company doing just that.

Not much later, word leaks out that Hayakawa Electric Co., Ltd. (later renamed to Sharp Corporation) is partnering with Autonetics to provide chip layout and fabrication for a set of LSI chips from a logic design provided by Hayakawa Electric that will provide all of the logic for an electronic calculator.