American Microsystems, Inc

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