American Megatrends
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| Formerly | American Megatrends, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Company type | Private |
| Industry | |
| Founded | 1985 |
| Founders | Subramonian Shankar Pat Sarma |
| Headquarters | Gwinnett County, Georgia, U.S. |
Key people | Sanjoy Maity (CEO) |
| Products |
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Number of employees | >1000 worldwide |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] Pat Sarma | |
American Megatrends International, LLC (AMI) is a company that makes computer hardware and software. It works with PC hardware and firmware.[3] The company started in 1985 and was founded by Pat Sarma and Subramonian Shankar.[4] Its main office is at 3095 Satellite Boulevard, Gwinnett County, Georgia, USA, near the city of Duluth and Atlanta.[5] At first, AMI made complete motherboards for high-end computers. Its first customer was a company called PCs Limited,[4] which later became Dell.[6] Over time, making hardware moved to companies in Taiwan.[7] AMI then focused on making BIOS firmware for major motherboard companies.[3] It created BIOS software for motherboards in 1986, server motherboards in 1992, storage controllers in 1995, and remote-management cards in 1998.[3] In 1993, AMI made MegaRAID, a storage controller card. In 2001,[8] AMI sold its RAID business to LSI Corporation.[4] Only one worker from that division stayed with AMI. AMI continued to work on making products for other companies (OEMs and ODMs). Some of its products include:
- AMIBIOS (a type of BIOS)[9]
- Aptio (a newer BIOS based on UEFI)
- Diagnostic software
- AMI EC (software for embedded controllers)
- MG-Series SGPIO backplane controllers (used in storage devices like SATA, SAS, and NVMe)
- Firmware development
- MegaRAC (software for managing servers).[4]
References
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[change | change source]- ↑ Corporate Information Archived 2008-05-12 at the Wayback Machine. American Megatrends.
- ↑ "S. Shankar's Biography. Archived 2009-03-07 at the Wayback Machine. iiT.Madras.org. (scroll down).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Foundational Technology". AMI. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "S. Shankar of AMI". TWiT.tv. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
- ↑ "Find Us Here - AMI Office Locations". AMI. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
- ↑ "Business revolutionary | Smart Business". archive.ph. 2013-02-01. Archived from the original on 2013-02-01. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
- ↑ "Taiwan motherboard industry overview". DIGITIMES. 2008-06-09. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
- ↑ "American Megatrends Inc. to Sell Industry-Leading RAID Business to LSI Logic. - Free Online Library". web.archive.org. 2018-07-09. Archived from the original on 2018-07-09. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
- ↑ "AMIBIOS". Techopedia. 2011-12-28. Retrieved 2024-12-29.