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Amiga, Inc. is the company that holds the intellectual property associated with the Amiga personal computer (originally developed by Amiga Corporation), including the Amiga trademark.
Brief history of Amiga brand
In the early 1980s Jay Miner, along with other Atari staffers, set up another chip-set project under a new company in Santa Clara, called Hi-Toro (later renamed to Amiga, Inc.), where they could have some creative freedom. Atari, under Jack Tramiel, skirted with purchasing Amiga Corporation, but it was eventually bought by Commodore International. (See "Amiga Corporation".)
In 1994, Commodore filed for bankruptcy and its assets were purchased by Escom, a German PC manufacturer, who in turn went bankrupt in 1997. The Amiga brand was then sold to another PC manufacturer, Gateway 2000, which had announced grand plans for it. However, in 2000, Gateway dropped the Amiga brand. This is rumored to be due to pressure by Microsoft; however, the real reason for the sale is unknown.
The current owner of the trademark, Amiga Inc., has licensed the rights to make hardware using the Amiga brand to a U.K. computer vendor, Eyetech Group, Ltd, which was founded by some former UK employees of Commodore International. They are currently selling the AmigaOne via an international dealer network. The AmigaOne is a PowerPC computer designed to run the last remnants of AmigaOS, which was itself licensed to a Belgian-German company, Hyperion Entertainment.
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Amiga, Inc. holds the intellectual property related to the Amiga personal computer that was developed by Amiga Corporation and Commodore International; hardware designs, software, operating system, trademark, etc. Amiga, Inc. also "produces and distributes enabling technologies and applications for wired and wireless devices."
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