American Megatrends

  • American Megatrends
  • International, LLC
AMI
FormerlyAmerican Megatrends, Inc.
Company typePrivate
Industry
Founded1985; 39 years ago (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.