VigilAnt Rant and Some Observations

[MrGaribaldi]

Is it just me, or does this look a bit like what happened to 3dfx?

Being overrun by nvidia, being late with their new chip, chip not up to the competition, top-end card not being delivered to market due to financial problems (or in this case because they've got too much of the P in stock to bother with the AGP 8x & fixes update)?

Followed with some desperate messures to get some more cash to keep going... (3dfx selling chip plant, Matrox cutting too thin with employess)

I'm hoping Matrox can pull through, as I've been happy with their products in the past, and was looking forward to the refresh/pitou...

Oh, well, at least I haven't stock in this company...
[EDIT]The problem was that I had stocks in 3dfx... [/EDIT]

[MetalCartman]

Originally posted by MrGaribaldi
Oh, well, at least I haven't stock in this company...

Sure, you can't. They're a privately held company...and that also could be one of their problems...

[Kuba2k]

I doesn't sounds good for all Matrox fans :/

[UtwigMU]

And intel has about 50% marketshare with their extreme graphics, which are decent for general office work. If intel, SiS or nVidia comes out with decent integrated dualhead chipset, there's no market for Matrox.

Also longhorn will sweep away 2D market since it will rely on pixelshaders to do the work.



Time to start collecting Matrox cards.

[Pace]

Yup, I got a whiff of this just after I laid into CI, it really was quite unbelievable. Most saddened to read his following posts, it's all happening.

I can't sleep at nights

[thop]

[thop]

actually, to quote the fat comic book guy from the simpsons: there is no emoticon for what i'm feeling!

[Liquid Snake]

[DentyCracker]

Oh dear. I guess P will be my last matrox card then. If this is true then I hope the competition sort their image quality issues out.

[Hati]

Bad news indeed.
I am going to upgrade my current system at the end of the year because I will have some money and time left. Was hoping the revision of P would be available then, but after reading Nappe1's
post in this thread

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37928

it looks like it's not going to happen.
I still hope Matrox can overcome this situation. I am looking forward for some good news to come.
Hati

[Xplora]

Sounds like the good news can't come. They are concentrating on the company's strengths. 2D quality.

The unfortunate thing is that 2D quality will become irrelevent soon with the next Windows OS. This could be the death rattle for Matrox; concentrating on soon to be obselete characteristics is DUMB.

[GT98]

Boy talk about a swift kick the nads....I guess this was bound happen since the tail spin that started back after G400Max came out. The introduction of the Parhelia and its subsuqant poor sales was the final straw that broke the camels back. I guess its time to offically give up hope and mourn the loss of MGA with all the faithful around here.

I guess Ant's Maxtor Users Resource Center isnt too far off

[Goc]

Sad news...

[Nappe1]

Sorry guys...
I truly hope that I am wrong this time, but right now it seems that Matrox has canned the new revision. It seems that they have something coming before christmas, but it's targetted to different market.

only good news I can deliver are that more than one source has delivered following message "Pitou has been definately taped-out", but all the rest is just foggy.

keeping you up to date as well as possible.

[GT98]

Originally posted by Nappe1
Sorry guys...
I truly hope that I am wrong this time, but right now it seems that Matrox has canned the new revision. It seems that they have something coming before christmas, but it's targetted to different market.

I'm guessing it something along the lines of a Parhelia/RT.x combo....basicly a very high end Video editing card?