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- Subject: Flip Chip (tm)
- Message-ID: <9301210230.AA05050@america.TELEBIT.COM>
- From: <eric@america.telebit.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 18:30:54 PST
- Organization: The Internet
- Return-Path: <pat+@transarc.com>
- In-Reply-To: Richard Shuford's message of 18 Jan 93 23:05:41 GMT
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- > This foray is generally held to have been successful. But the first
- > products that Digital Equipment Corporation sold were those simple
- > circuit boards, which bore the name "Flip Chip". And for some years
- > afterward, even when the boards were used inside a larger product, DEC
- > kept the original trade name intact.
-
- As I understand it, after the original "System Modules", they tried to make
- encapsulated hybrid modules, which were to be called "Flip Chips", and were
- supposed to compete with integrated circuits. They apparently had a lot of
- production problems, and switched to PC boards, but kept the name.
-