Wake up Matrox!!!

[High_Jumbllama]

Wow! There's still some fanboys/fangirls left. Whouda thunk it?

[Mikko]

Why don't you just buy Matrox TripleHead2Go and use it with NVidia or AMD cards?

Matrox is still strongly in the business when it comes to Surround Gaming. Or should I say, Matrox has the monopoly in that market...

You can get the latest info about Surround Gaming here:

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/

[Amiga Blitter]

@nowhere

I just want to point out that i am an Happy user of tha Amiga OS 4.1 with a Sam440EP board. Regardless techincal spec, (667 mhz ppc, 64 MB Ati 9000 M, 512 MB of ram) the OS rocks, sporting effect similar to Vista (transparency, fading, zoom in/out, composition engine and cairo graphics) very very fast, (and the hardware acceleration will be soon implemented). Other processors and motherboard are in work, so i espect much faster speed.

[Nowhere]

Fine, then just wait...more. (how many of those threads you've started over the last half a decade?)

The rest of us will just sit down and smell the ashes (I know I can - G400, 10 years old in two months or so, is still in my "main" PC... )

PS. One would think you'd be used to this...after all you've been quite partial to the Amiga, I guess. Yeah, it was superior technically for a few years, then the OS & momentum kept it going for a few more...but once they couldn't keep up, it was game over.

[Amiga Blitter]

The fact that they realize the Extio and Veio solutions proves that they have a reguardable technicals know-how. After all, they have won the Inavation Awards 2009: http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/

[Heiney]

Do you really think that Matrox have no Asic Engineers? I don't think so.

I don't think so either. They have nowhere near the R&D capabilities of ATI or NVIDIA. Nor do they have the money to try to go down that road, I imagine.

S3 is more capable of making graphics cards than Matrox is if their product releases are any indication.

[Amiga Blitter]

It's not all about GPU and other things. Operating system and platform evolves. Vista requires a DX10 card. What in the future? Linux, OSX, Microsoft, requires Hardware accelerations.

[Amiga Blitter]

They have to fight to survive. Ati and Nvidia can for sure enter in other marchet if they want. I remember the first Millenium card fromMatrox. Do you really think that Matrox have no Asic Engineers? I don't think so.


Wake up, Matrox!

[rylan]

Yeah but realistically, can Matrox survive on just selling framegrabber boards and vision products in their Imaging division?
nVidia and ATI are agressively targeting medical imaging and multi-monitor applications.

[Mehen]

AFAIK neither nv nor ati have anything like the frame grabbers or imaging hardware that we use, nor do they have anything in development.
We have used Matrox products for many, many years here and even nv or ati came out with some competition, I am not sure that we would be in a big hurry to switch. "Loyal" is right.

[rylan]

Except that nVidia and ATI are both picking away at those specialty markets that Matrox once dominated.

[VJ]

They're happy with their little niche markets.

I think it is a more "rewarding" and loyal market too...
Quality, stability, total cost of ownership, etc. are more important there than in the consumer market.

The only thing I do wonder: in time, won't they have to offer more up-to-date GPUs to satisfy their niche markets? I mean, given the GPGPU evolution etc...

[Kruzin]

They lost all of their good ASIC engineers, and most of their driver guys years ago to nVidia.
They have no interest or capability in taking on consumer level cards again.
They're happy with their little niche markets.

[Amiga Blitter]

I don't think so. They can wake up from the current hybernation. They can trow out a DX 10.1 chip. And a DX 10.1/OGL 3.0 chip doesn't mean only gaming. Today's applications relay on GPU computing and CGL. See Lightware core (www.newtek.com/core). New chips are required to supply the today's application demand.

[Nowhere]

...
I know that Matrox have great capabilities and can show out of the hat many magics. Please, Matrox, don't give up. Back to the good old days with new powerful products. Give us a DX 10.1 card and great GPU computing capabilities.
...

No, they don't. No, they can't. They don't have a choice. Long gone. Dream on.