We didn't even have a practical vacuum tube AND gate until 1930, and a formal treatment of logic design until 1936-1937. It's doubtful the need for ICs was well

We didn't even have a practical vacuum tube AND gate until 1930, and a formal treatment of logic design until 1936-1937. It's doubtful the need for ICs was well understood. And they would be expensive until there was a big enough market to produce them at scale.