I think you mean ‘Western Electric’ rather than ‘Western Digital’.

I meant Western Design Center; Western Electric, as I alluded to, wasn't producing CPUs for anyone outside AT&T c. 1980. But WDC isn't appropriate as an Intel peer, either, because back then it was just two people in a kitchen in Arizona (and still was, when Apple went to it for the 65816).

Better would have been AMD, Nat Semi, or TI.