| American Megatrends, Inc. | |
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| 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 |
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. AMI's product line includes BIOS, diagnostic software, remote access, motherboards, backplanes, driver/firmware development, service processors, storage systems, chassis design, and integrated systems. AMI claims a number of initiatives:
- 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.
The Indian development center is located at Chennai. It is called American Megatrends India Pvt Ltd. This houses around 200 engineers working in the latest technology.
Criticisms
- AMIBIOS upgrades require a Windows operating system, other operating systems are not supported. [1]
