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A fact from Atari Sierra appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 May 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the Atari Sierra 16/32-bit personal computer was never built, but its synthesizer chip was later sold as the Atari AMY? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Atari Sierra.

Original Atari ST had 4 custom chips: Shifter, GLU, MMU and DMA leading to specification as 71KHz hi-res display, 10mbit/s ASCI DMA port, MC68000 full speed unlike in Mac Classic... later ATari added custom blitter to ST. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST

Beside this four ASIC, ST had WDC1772 floppy controller, Motorola MC68901 and MC6850P, for sound and communication YM2149. Atari ST does not have sophisticated custom chips like Amiga, but it also certainly not built on "off-the-shelf hardware" so I will change wording in article to: "would be built with custom chips and off-the-shelf hardware".