American Megatrends Incorporated (AMI) is an American hardware and software company that specializes in PC hardware and firmware. It was founded in 1985 by Pat Sarma and S. Shankar. S. Shankar is currently the chairman and president. It is headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, United States. The company started as a manufacturer of complete motherboards, positioning itself in the high-end segment. Its first customer happened to be PCs Ltd, later known as Dell Computers.

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  • American Megatrends Incorporated (AMI) is an American hardware and software company that specializes in PC hardware and firmware. It was founded in 1985 by Pat Sarma and S. Shankar. S. Shankar is currently the chairman and president. It is headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, United States. The company started as a manufacturer of complete motherboards, positioning itself in the high-end segment. Its first customer happened to be PCs Ltd, later known as Dell Computers. As hardware business moved progressively to Taiwan-based ODMs, AMI retained a strong customer base as a BIOS firmware developer for major motherboard manufacturers. The company focused on the BIOS software portion of the motherboard business, at the same time diversifying towards technologically richer products such as server motherboards (1992), storage controllers (1995) and remote management cards (1998). AMI’s greatest success story came in 1996 with MegaRAID, a storage controller card. Thanks to its unique online expansion capability, the MegaRAID became an immediate success and was adopted by major OEMs like HP and Dell. The RAID division assets were sold to LSI Logic in 2001. Today AMI still has an OEM and technology focus. Its product line includes AMIBIOS, Aptio (a successor to AMIBIOS8 based on the UEFI standard), diagnostic software, remote access firmware, motherboards, SGPIO backplane controllers, driver/firmware development, service processors, and NAS and IP-SAN storage systems for SMBs. As an early PC motherboard manufacturer developing in-house both hardware and firmware, AMI claims a number of design innovations: 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 in BIOS; First to create a GUI BIOS interface with mouse support; First to integrate BIOS diagnostics and first to support ACPI; First to support SATA in BIOS diagnostics; First to develop RAID controllers with online expansion capability. Worldwide offices: United States Headquarters: Gwinnett County, Georgia Field office: Fremont, California Kunshan, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China Munich, Germany Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan Seoul, South Korea Former offices: Dupont, Washington, United States
  • American Megatrends Incorporated (AMI) est une compagnie informatique américaine basée en Géorgie produisant des composants et des logiciels pour PC, notamment des puces BIOS. Elle a été fondée en 1985 par son actuel PDG et président, S. Shankar. American Megatrends a été l'un des pionniers dans les stockage informatique avec par exemple les controlleurs RAID, AMI RAID ayant même été numéro un mondial dans la production de cartes RAID entre 1995 et 2000. La division RAID d'AMI a été acquise en 2001 par LSI Logic. La gamme de produits d'American Megatrends comprend des BIOS, des logiciels de diagnostic, des systèmes intégrés, des systèmes de stockage, des carte mère... AMI a également réalisé les progrès suivants : Premier à bâtir des carte mère basées sur les processeurs Intel 386 et 486. Premier à supporter l'USB. Premier à construire et employer un système comprenant quatre processeurs Xeon. Premier à intégrer des diagnostics et à supporter l'ACPI
  • American Megatrends Incorporated (AMI) to przedsiębiorstwo informatyczne produkujące sprzęt i firmware dla komputerów PC. Przedsiębiorstwo zostało założone w stanie Georgia w USA w roku 1985 przez aktualnego prezesa i dyrektora S. Shankara. AMI stworzyła m. in. własny BIOS, oprogramowanie diagnostyczne, płyty główne i systemy przechowywania danych.
  • American Megatrends Inc. , ou simplesmente AMI, é uma companhia de hardware e software sediada em Gwinnett County, Georgia, Estados Unidos especializada em firmware, controladores, sistemas de armazenagem de dados e sistemas integrados. É um dos líderes do mercado de firmware para a arquitectura x86. Uma versão particularizada do BIOS AMI pode-se encontrar nos actuais motherboards da ASRock, entre outros. American Megratrends Inc.
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  • American Megatrends Incorporated (AMI) is an American hardware and software company that specializes in PC hardware and firmware. It was founded in 1985 by Pat Sarma and S. Shankar. S. Shankar is currently the chairman and president. It is headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, United States. The company started as a manufacturer of complete motherboards, positioning itself in the high-end segment. Its first customer happened to be PCs Ltd, later known as Dell Computers.
  • American Megatrends Incorporated (AMI) est une compagnie informatique américaine basée en Géorgie produisant des composants et des logiciels pour PC, notamment des puces BIOS. Elle a été fondée en 1985 par son actuel PDG et président, S. Shankar. American Megatrends a été l'un des pionniers dans les stockage informatique avec par exemple les controlleurs RAID, AMI RAID ayant même été numéro un mondial dans la production de cartes RAID entre 1995 et 2000.
  • American Megatrends Incorporated (AMI) to przedsiębiorstwo informatyczne produkujące sprzęt i firmware dla komputerów PC. Przedsiębiorstwo zostało założone w stanie Georgia w USA w roku 1985 przez aktualnego prezesa i dyrektora S. Shankara. AMI stworzyła m. in. własny BIOS, oprogramowanie diagnostyczne, płyty główne i systemy przechowywania danych.
  • American Megatrends Inc. , ou simplesmente AMI, é uma companhia de hardware e software sediada em Gwinnett County, Georgia, Estados Unidos especializada em firmware, controladores, sistemas de armazenagem de dados e sistemas integrados. É um dos líderes do mercado de firmware para a arquitectura x86. Uma versão particularizada do BIOS AMI pode-se encontrar nos actuais motherboards da ASRock, entre outros. American Megratrends Inc.
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