[[File:Amstrad.40489.asic.jpg|thumb|right|Amstrad Plus ASIC]]
'''Application-Specific Integrated Circuit''' (ASIC)
==Amstrad custom chips==
The Amstrad CPC used one custom chip: the video [[Video Gate Array]] (also called VGA – no connection with the Video PC standard).
Later [[CPC]] cost down series included a "pre-ASIC"-called ASIC chip to merge the VGA [[Gate Array]] and the [[CRTC]].
The Amstrad [[Plus]] included a "second heart" simply referred as the ASIC.