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, S. Shankar.

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.

AMI's extensive product line includes BIOS, diagnostic software, remote access, motherboards, backplanes, driver/firmware development, service processors, storage systems, chassis design, and integrated systems.

AMI's boasts the following achievements:

• 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.

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• American Megatrends Inc.
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Companies based in Georgia (U.S. state) | Computer hardware companies | BIOS

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