American Megatrends Incorporated (AMI) is a Georgia based hardware company that creates PC hardware and firmware. It was founded in 1985 by the current chairman and president, Subramonian Shankar. Image File history File links American_Megatrends_Inc_logo. ... Hardware comprises all of the physical parts of a computer, as distinguished from the data it contains or operates on, and the software that provides instructions for the hardware to accomplish tasks. ... One of the first PCs from IBM - the IBM PC model 5150. ... In computing, firmware is software that is embedded in a hardware device. ...

American Megatrends was a pioneer 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 independent disks (more commonly known as a RAID) is a system of using multiple hard drives for sharing or replicating data among the drives. ... LSI Logic is a technology company in Milpitas, California. ...

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