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From: mph@praxis.co.uk (Martin Hanley)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: ASIC
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Date: 27 Oct 88 10:48:35 GMT
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In article <558@quintus.UUCP> jabir@quintus.UUCP (Jabir Hussain) writes:
>could anyone tell me what ASIC stands for?  thanks

Yeah. It stands for   "Application Specific Integrated Circuit", and
is American for "Custom Chip".

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