Budget 2012

Sri Subramonian Shankar

by VARINDIA 2012-04-16

Sri Subramonian Shankar,
President,
American Megatrends Inc.

American Megatrends Incorporated (AMI) is an American hardware and software company that specializes in PC hardware and firmware. It was founded in 1985 by S. Shankar. It is headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, United States. AMI was ranked as the world's number one BIOS manufacturer. In 1994 Sri Shankar founded AMI Germany and AMI India which is located in Chennai .The company started as a manufacturer of complete motherboards, positioning itself in the high-end segment. Its first customer happened to be PCs Ltd, later known as Dell Computers. The company focused on the BIOS software portion of the motherboard business, at the same time diversifying towards technologically richer products such as server motherboards (1992), storage controllers (1995) and remote management cards (1998). AMI’s greatest success story came in 1996 with MegaRAID, a storage controller card.