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American Megatrends

  • American Megatrends
  • International, LLC
AMI
FormerlyAmerican Megatrends, Inc.
Company typePrivate
Industry
Founded1985 (1985)
FoundersSubramonian Shankar
Pat Sarma
HeadquartersGwinnett County, Georgia, U.S.
Key people
Sanjoy Maity (CEO)
Products
BrandsAMIBIOS
Aptio
AMI EC
AMIDIAG
MegaRAC
Number of employees
>1000 worldwide
Websiteami.com
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]

AMI integrated circuit at a MegaRAID SCSI controller

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]

  1. ^ Corporate Information Archived 2008-05-12 at the Wayback Machine. American Megatrends.
  2. ^ "S. Shankar's Biography. Archived 2009-03-07 at the Wayback Machine. iiT.Madras.org. (scroll down).
  3. ^ a b c "About American Megatrends". American Megatrends Inc. 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  4. ^ a b c d S. Shankar interviewed on the TV show Triangulation on the TWiT.tv network
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ Jacobs, Daniel G. "Business revolutionary". Smart Business. July 2004. Retrieved on May 6, 2009.
  7. ^ Morris, Ricky. "Motherboard Industry Overview". Digitimes. Monday June 9, 2008 (last update Wednesday July 9, 2008). Retrieved on May 6, 2009.
  8. ^ a b "Corporate Profile: American Megatrends". American Megatrends Inc. 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "AMIBIOS". Techopedia. 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
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