American Megatrends, Inc.
Type	Private
Founded	S. Shankar, (1985)
Headquarters	Norcross, Georgia
Industry	Computer hardware Diagnostic software Remote access Motherboards Firmware Storage systems
Products	AMIBIOS AmiDiag StorTrends MegaRAC ManageTrends
Employees	500 worldwide
Website	www.ami.com

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American Megatrends Incorporated (AMI) is a Georgia, USA based hardware company that creates PC hardware and firmware. It was founded in 1985 by the current chairman and president, S. Shankar. Image File history File links American_Megatrends_Logo. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Norcross is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. ... Computer hardware is the physical part of a computer, including the digital circuitry, as distinguished from the computer software that executes within the hardware. ... In telecommunication, the term remote access has the following meanings: 1. ... Sony Playstation motherboard A motherboard, also known as main board, logic board or system board, is the central or primary circuit board making up a complex electronic system, such as a computer. ... In computing, firmware is software that is embedded in a hardware device. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... Image File history File links Information_icon. ... Shortcut: WP:WIN Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and, as a means to that end, also an online community. ... Shortcut: WP:NPOV Wikipedia policy is that all articles should be written from a neutral point of view. ... Shortcut: WP:RULES Wikipedia is a collaborative project and its founders and contributors have a common goal: Wikipedia has some policies and guidelines that help us to work toward that common goal. ... Official language(s) English Capital Atlanta Largest city Atlanta Area  Ranked 24th  - Total 59,411 sq mi (154,077 km²)  - Width 230 miles (370 km)  - Length 298 miles (480 km)  - % water 2. ... Computer hardware is the physical part of a computer, including the digital circuitry, as distinguished from the computer software that executes within the hardware. ... The Columbia MPC was one of the many IBM PC compatibles that flooded the US market. ... In computing, firmware is software that is embedded in a hardware device. ...

American Megatrends was one of the first companies involved in storage products such as RAID controllers. Between the years 1995 and 2000, AMI RAID grew to become the #1 RAID card in the world. The AMI RAID division was acquired in 2001 by LSI Logic. In computing, a redundant array of inexpensive disks, also later known as redundant array of independent disks (commonly abbreviated RAID) is a system which uses multiple hard drives to share or replicate data among the drives. ... LSI Logic was founded in Milpitas, CA by Wilfred Corrigan in 1981 after he left an executive position with Fairchild Semiconductor. ...

AMI's product line includes BIOS, diagnostic software, remote access, motherboards, backplanes, driver/firmware development, service processors, storage systems, chassis design, and integrated systems. BIOS, in computing, stands for Basic Input/Output System also incorrectly known as Basic Integrated Operating System. ...

AMI has been the first in the following areas:

• 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.
• First to create a GUI BIOS interface with mouse support.
• First to integrate diagnostics and First to support ACPI.
• First to support SATA in the diagnostics.

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External links

• American Megatrends Inc.
• Company Profile