American Megatrends Opens Office in Korea, Names New Director.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1999-- Editorial Summary -- American Megatrends 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. opens Korean office to serve new AMI customers better -- Steve Kim Steve Kim (born April 16 1977[1]) is a Korean-American hip hop artist who is a member of the Korean hip-hop group Uptown. He is also known by the alias Kwon. He was also one half of the now defunct hip-hop duo Uptown 3000. named Managing Director of Korean Division -- Expansion prompted by increased demand for AMI products in Korea American Megatrends, Inc. (AMI), the world leader in supplying OEMs and channel customers with state-of-the-art RAID products, motherboards, BIOS and software utilities, today announced that it has opened a new office in Seoul, Korea. In a strategic move to better serve new AMI customers, AMI's Korean office will support several new licensing agreements for AMIBIOS AMIBIOS American Megatrends, Incorporated, Basic Input/Output System , AMI's award-winning PC firmware package. With the expansion, the company officially announced the promotion of Steve Kim to Managing Director Korea. "With the tremendous growth that AMI has experienced in the past year, the opening of the Korean office marks AMI's commitment to better serve our Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. customers," says Kim. "We will also focus on expanding market awareness for AMI's extensive range of state-of-the-art enterprise server products and establishing MegaRAID(tm) controllers as the number one RAID controller A disk controller card that supports one or more RAID configurations. Originally only for SCSI drives, RAID controllers have become very popular for PATA and SATA drives. See RAID. worldwide." The opening of the Korean office comes on the heels of the huge success experienced in the Pacific Rim marketplace with MegaRAID, American Megatrends' number one RAID controller. Increased demand from AMI OEM's and distributors for MegaRAID, as well other AMI products, has prompted the need for rapid expansion and increased availability in Korea as well. Founded in 1985, American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) has dedicated its resources to providing OEMs, resellers and systems integrators with leading edge computer technologies. This privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , best known for its Basic Input/Output Systems (operating system) Basic Input/Output System - (BIOS, ROM BIOS) The part of the system software of the IBM PC and compatibles that provides the lowest level interface to peripheral devices and controls the first stage of the bootstrap process, including installing the operating or BIOS, also supplies its state-of-the-art hardware, software, utilities and RAID controllers to over 55% of today's high-tech manufacturers. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, AMI has locations in the US and throughout the world including London, Madras, Munich, Seoul, Taipei, and Tokyo to better serve our customers. For more information on AMI, its products, services or reseller opportunities call 1-800-U-BUY-AMI or visit our website at www.ami.com. |
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