Three of Silicon Valley's most significant early silicon technology innovations, the planar process, the monolithic integrated circuit and the microprocessor were developed by Fairchild and Intel entirely without government funding or support. Early military purchases of some of the resulting components certainly helped develop the economies of scale that made them practical in the commercial market place but had little to do with kick-starting them. If anything government agencies funded large corporations, such as Westinghouse and others, on the East Coast to compete, thankfully unsuccessfully, with these entrepreneurial solutions.