This partnership continued until 2001, when LSI Logic purchased the RAID Division of American Megatrends American Megatrends then purchased all shares of the company owned by Sarma, making Shankar the majority owner. Shankar became the president and Sarma the executive vice-president of this company. the renamed company then purchased AMIBIOS from Access Methods. The partners renamed QCI as American Megatrends Inc., with the same initials as Access Methods Inc. īy this time the AMIBIOS had become established and there was a need to keep the initials AMI. (QCI), and later set up an equal partnership with Shankar.

Sarma had already started a company called Quintessential Consultants Inc. Access Methods still owned the rights to the AMIBIOS. After Access Methods successfully launched the AMIBIOS, there were legal issues among the owners of the company, resulting in Sarma buying out his partners. Access Methods was a company run by Pat Sarma and his partner. (AMI) was founded in 1985 by Subramonian Shankar and Pat Sarma with funds from a previous consulting venture, Access Methods Inc. Old American Megatrends logo (1985–2020) Īmerican Megatrends Inc. The company produced BIOS software for motherboards (1986), server motherboards (1992), storage controllers (1995) and remote-management cards (1998). Īs hardware activity moved progressively to Taiwan-based original design manufacturers, AMI continued to develop BIOS firmware for major motherboard manufacturers. Its first customer was PCs Limited, later known as Dell Computer. The company started as a manufacturer of complete motherboards, positioning itself in the high-end segment. It is headquartered in Building 800 at 3095 Satellite Boulevard in unincorporated Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States, near the city of Duluth, and in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The company was founded in 1985 by Pat Sarma and Subramonian Shankar. AMI ( American Megatrends International LLC, formerly American Megatrends Inc.) is an international hardware and software company, specializing in PC hardware and firmware.

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