Flip Chips was Re: US Sources for old ICs

[Tim Shoppa]

Paul wrote:

> "Flip Chip" as a DEC trademark simply designates the PC board with
> stuff on them that implements some function and can be plugged into a
> backplane.

That's what it ended up meaning, and most of the modules indeed were made up of discrete wire-lead components and DIP's on
a plug-in card.

But DEC's original intention was a much closer bonding
of a hybrid module to a PCB sans wires.  See my thread
in a.f.c. on this topic in 1998 :-).

Tim.