American Megatrends
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| American Megatrends, Inc. | |
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | S. Shankar, (1985) |
| Headquarters | Norcross, Georgia |
| Industry | Computer hardware Diagnostic software Remote access Motherboards Firmware Storage systems |
| Products | AMIBIOS AmiDiag StorTrends MegaRAC ManageTrends |
| Employees | 500 worldwide |
| Website | www.ami.com |
American Megatrends Incorporated (AMI) is a Georgia based hardware company that creates PC hardware and firmware. It was founded in 1985 by the current chairman and president, S. Shankar.
American Megatrends was one of the first companies involved in storage products such as RAID controllers. Between the years 1995 and 2000, AMI RAID grew to become the #1 RAID card in the world. The AMI RAID division was acquired in 2001 by LSI Logic.
AMI's product line includes BIOS, diagnostic software, remote access, motherboards, backplanes, driver/firmware development, service processors, storage systems, chassis design, and integrated systems.
AMI has been the first in the following areas:
- First to build motherboards based on Intel's 386 and 486 processor platforms.
- First to use onboard external cache designs for these boards;.
- First to build and ship a quad-Xeon processor system.
- First to support USB.
- First to create a GUI BIOS interface with mouse support.
- First to integrate diagnostics and First to support ACPI.
- First to support SATA in the diagnostics.
