Company Pedigree
| Ascendant Companies | Descendent Companies | ||
| Company | Comments | Company | Comments |
| General Micro-electronics | Founded by Howard Bobb in 1966 | ||
Company Overview
AMI was founded in 1966 in Santa Clara, CA. Established its manufacturing facility in Pocatello, Idaho, in 1970. Very successful in the early 70’s when it had 50% share of the MOSFET IC market. Established manufacturing facilities in the Philippines in 1980. Bought by Gould in 1982. Gould was bought by Japan Energy Corporation in 1988. In 2000, AMI was bought Francisco Partners and CVC and renamed AMI Semiconductor. AMI should not be confused with American Megatrends, Inc. makers of AMI BIOS.
Major Achievements
Chip Identification
AMI Chips
| Microprocessors | |
| CPU’s | |
| MCU’s | |
| Bit-Slice | 6501 |
| Coprocessors | |
| Memory Devices | |
| RAM | |
| ROM | |
| PROM | |
| EPROM | |
| EEPROM | |
| CCD Memory | |
| Bubble Memory | |
| General Use Support Chips | |
| Shift Registers | |
| Interfaces | |
| Communications | |
Second Sourced Chips
| Microprocessors | |
| CPU’s | Motorola 6800 |
| MCU’s | None |
| Bit-Slice | None |
| Memory Devices | |
| RAM | None |
| ROM | None |
| PROM | None |
| EPROM | None |
| EEPROM | None |
| CCD Memory | None |
| Bubble Memory | None |
| General Use Support Chips | |
| Shift Registers | None |
| Interfaces | None |
| Communications | None |