Computer chips became Virginia's most valuable export in 2002.
=== Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) ==="Very-large-scale integration" (VLSI) is a development started with hundreds of thousands of transistors in the early 1980s, and, as of 2016, transistor counts continue to grow beyond ten billion transistors per chip
 Government spending on space and defense still accounted for 37% of the $312 million total production

