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Amiga, Inc. company that holds the intellectual property associated with the Amiga personal computer (originally developed by Amiga Corporation , including the Amiga trademark. BRIEF HISTORY OF AMIGA BRAND In the early 1980s Jay Miner , along with other Atari staffers, set up another chip-set project under a new company in Santa Clara, called Hi-Toro (later renamed to Amiga, Inc.), where they could have some creative freedom. Atari , under Jack Tramiel , skirted with purchasing Amiga Corporation, but it was eventually bought by Commodore International . (See " Amiga Corporation ".) In 1994 , Commodore filed for bankruptcy and its assets were purchased by Escom , a German PC manufacturer, who in turn went bankrupt in 1997 . The Amiga brand was then sold to another PC manufacturer, Gateway 2000 , which had announced grand plans for it. However, in 2000, Gateway dropped the Amiga brand. This is rumored to be due to pressure by Microsoft ; however, the real reason for the sale is unknown. The current owner of the trademark, Amiga Inc., has licensed the rights to make hardware using the Amiga brand to a U.K. computer vendor, Eyetech Group, Ltd , which was founded by some former UK employees of Commodore International . They are currently selling the AmigaOne via an international dealer network. The AmigaOne is a PowerPC computer designed to run the last remnants of AmigaOS , which was itself licensed to a Belgian-German company, Hyperion Entertainment . CURRENT Amiga, Inc. holds the intellectual property related to the Amiga personal computer that was developed by Amiga Corporation and Commodore International ; hardware designs, software, operating system, trademark, etc. Amiga, Inc. also "produces and distributes enabling technologies and applications for wired and wireless devices." SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINK Amiga, Inc. |
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