AST: a 3-letter word that can’t be found in the dictionary but is lodged in our collective memory. AST: The Flagship of Innovation in the PC Era with an audacious manner worthy of a modern day start-up. Today, AST is ready to be reborn and to once again bring a... The most beautiful stories often have humble beginnings: AST’s story is the tale of 3 ambitious friends who travelled from Asia to California to study sciences, and ended up being engulfed by the entrepreneurial spirit of their new host country where the sky was the... Their idea was visionary! Indeed, IBM’s first Personal Computers were to be far more than just a short-lived hype….but quite rapidly clients starting requesting system updates. AST (an acronym of the 3 founding fathers Albert, Safi and Thomas) provided the solution in... This card, including a watch, memory and a game port, was so significant that IBM itself distributed it from within its own network. This card represented 13 million Dollars worth of sales in 1983 alone, and that was only the start… The founders risked all (the 1st check they received was a blank, and their houses were mortgaged) but ended up winning big: with a 135 million $ turnover that year, Ferrari engines purred on their driveways, but AST did not rest on its laurels and got geared up for...