I had a dream where IC chips came in SIP form, eg a shift register or a Microcontroller, maybe they have their uses requiring only 1 row of pins, they would be great for light shows not needing jumpers around/over/below traditional DIP's...
Maybe I'm the only one lol
You are the only one 
There are SIP ICs - for instance, the Rohm BA6886 (and BA6886N) motor driver IC variants. I picked up a few of these from a surplus vendor (All Electronics, IIRC). I'm sure there are other SIP IC devices available...
One of my favorite LED drivers is a SIP: an6884 for sale | eBay
I remember the old SGI workstations used SIP chips for everything - it was they only way they could get enough chips on a PCB.
Wow, that is surprising...... I figured all sip style ic's were just resistor bridges.
This is a framebuffer: http://www.sgistuff.net/hardware/systems/images/powerseries-0000-rm2.jpg
This is a geometry processor: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/SGI-re2-ge10v.jpg
I think the SIPs between the big square chips are RAM.
I'd agree, there used to be RAM SIPs a long time ago, whatever happened to them?
Some nice pics of 'big iron' there
I suspect my phone is as powerful as those SGI board were though...
BTW these days with surface mount and 6+ layer boards PCB signal routing isn't
a big issue (other than getting them off a large BGA!)
MarkT:
Some nice pics of 'big iron' there
A complete "graphics card" was 4 of those big boards. Apart from that you had your CPU board, RAM board, hard disk controller (SCSI) and I/O board (RS232, etc).
They all slid into a huge box, like this one: http://www.sgistuff.net/hardware/systems/images/powerseries-1201-front.jpg
http://www.sgistuff.net/mirrors/sgi/vgx/vgx.jpg (partially loaded)
http://www.sgistuff.net/mirrors/sgi/gtx/cardcage.jpg (fully loaded)
MarkT:
I suspect my phone is as powerful as those SGI board were though...
Probably 100x more powerful.
(and a lot quieter...!)
Somewhere I've an old Indigo workstation in the attic - a lot more sensibly sized.
MIPS r10000 IIRC
MarkT:
Somewhere I've an old Indigo workstation in the attic - a lot more sensibly sized.
MIPS r10000 IIRC
I had one of those, too. Nice shape, but no hardware texture mapping.
People used to make them into coffee machines. SGI even had an official version - the Expressigo:
