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Amstrad couldn't see this move and released the Amstrad Plus range which should have been 16-bit.
(Or perhaps it should have been an hybrid with both a 16-bit CPU and a Z80 to keep compatibilitywith the old range, why not?)
On the other hand, Amstrad was producing affordable 16-bit PC compatibles with pseudo EGA capacity (16 colours), so in this way it was actually a 16-bit producer.