AST Research

AST Research, Inc.

Former headquarters in Irvine, now occupied by Blizzard Entertainment
Trade name	AST Computer
Company type	Subsidiary
Founded	July 25, 1980; 44 years ago (1980-07-25), in Irvine, California, United States
Founder	Albert Wong Safi Qureshey Thomas Yuen
Defunct	February 28, 2001; 23 years ago (2001-02-28)
Fate	Dissolved
Headquarters	Irvine, California, United States
Parent	Samsung Electronics (1997–2001)
Website	ast.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 1996-10-29)

AST Research, Inc., later doing business as AST Computer, was a personal computer manufacturer. It was founded in 1980 in Irvine, California, by Albert Wong, Safi Qureshey, and Thomas Yuen, as an initialism of their first names. In the 1980s, AST designed add-on expansion cards, and evolved toward the 1990s into a major personal computer manufacturer. AST was acquired by Samsung Electronics in 1997 but was de facto closed in 1999 due to a series of losses.