Global InformationAmerican Megatrends information
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Trade name | AMI |
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| Formerly | American Megatrends, Inc. |
| Company type | Private |
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| Founded | 1985 |
| Founders | Subramonian Shankar Pat Sarma |
| Headquarters | Gwinnett County, Georgia, U.S. |
Key people | Sanjoy Maity (CEO) |
| Products |
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| Brands | AMIBIOS Aptio AMI EC AMIDIAG MegaRAC |
Number of employees | >1000 worldwide |
| Website | ami |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] Pat Sarma | |
American Megatrends International, LLC, doing business as AMI, is an international hardware and software company, specializing in PC hardware and firmware.[3] The company was founded in 1985 by Pat Sarma and Subramonian Shankar.[4] It is headquartered in Building 800 at 3095 Satellite Boulevard in unincorporated Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States, near the city of Duluth, and in the Atlanta metropolitan area.[5]
The company started as a manufacturer of complete motherboards, positioning itself in the high-end segment. Its first customer was PCs Limited,[4] later known as Dell Computer.[6]
As hardware activity moved progressively to Taiwan-based original design manufacturers,[7] AMI continued to develop BIOS firmware for major motherboard manufacturers.[8] The company produced BIOS software for motherboards (1986), server motherboards (1992), storage controllers (1995) and remote-management cards (1998).[8]
In 1993, AMI produced MegaRAID, a storage controller card. AMI sold its RAID assets to LSI Corporation[4] in 2001,[9] with only one employee from the RAID-division remaining with the AMI core team.[citation needed]
AMI continued to focus on OEM and ODM business and technology.[3] Its product line includes or has previously included AMIBIOS[10] (a BIOS), Aptio (a successor to AMIBIOS8 based on the UEFI standard), diagnostic software, AMI EC (embedded controller firmware), MG-Series SGPIO backplane controllers (for SATA, SAS and NVMe storage devices), driver/firmware development, and MegaRAC (BMC firmware).[3][4]
- ^ 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).
- ^ a b c "About American Megatrends". American Megatrends Inc. 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ^ a b c d S. Shankar interviewed on the TV show Triangulation on the TWiT.tv network
- ^ "International Offices". American Megatrends. Retrieved on February 24, 2021. "AMI Corporate Headquarters 3095 Satellite Boulevard Building 800, Suite 425, Duluth, Georgia 30096" – The street address has "Duluth, Georgia" in it but the location is outside of the city limits.
- ^ Jacobs, Daniel G. "Business revolutionary". Smart Business. July 2004. Retrieved on May 6, 2009.
- ^ Morris, Ricky. "Motherboard Industry Overview". Digitimes. Monday June 9, 2008 (last update Wednesday July 9, 2008). Retrieved on May 6, 2009.
- ^ a b "Corporate Profile: American Megatrends". American Megatrends Inc. 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ^ Compare: American Megatrends Inc. to Sell Industry-Leading RAID Business to LSI Logic Archived 2018-07-09 at the Wayback Machine. Business Wire. May 29, 2001. Retrieved on May 5, 2009.
- ^ "AMIBIOS". Techopedia. 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018.