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Matrox Graphics enters IP licensing business
Montreal, Canada, April 4th, 2006 — Matrox Graphics, Inc., the leading manufacturer of graphics solutions for professionals, today announced that the company has expanded its business by making certain graphics cores available for third party licensing. Matrox has been designing graphics devices for almost thirty years and has a large portfolio of market-proven graphics technologies including enterprise-class 2D, 3D and video accelerators...
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Uhmmm...but who would want to license them?
(I can see only one advantage of one of Matrox GPU lines: G-series has excellent open source drivers, so Richard Stallman/FSF will start a company producing them/derivatives of them at much lower price )
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How many G400 cores in SLI would it take to compete today? :P
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maybe they can jam on two different cores on the same board, and you could switch between them or something
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Dident Gigabyte offer some sort of G400 that only worked with their mobo?According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless..
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Somehow I don;t think this is aimed at high-end solutions 3D performance wise in any way. Might be providing best gfx for computer-on-chip appliances etc. He, imagine that, a mobile phone powered by a G400MAX.Join MURCs Distributed Computing effort for Rosetta@Home and help fight Alzheimers, Cancer, Mad Cow disease and rising oil prices.
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well, my first thoughts are always 3d performance/gaming /me crosses fingers
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You don't necessarily need Parhelia anymore, for Surround Gaming. Now you can have Surround Gaming with the Matrox TripleHead2Go, too..Originally posted by |Mehen|
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yup someother can integrate the matroxs triplehead to go into into a decent 3d card.Originally posted by MikkoYou don't necessarily need Parhelia anymore, for Surround Gaming. Now you can have Surround Gaming with the Matrox TripleHead2Go, too..
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Wow
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Interesting...
If they could get contracts for:
Office PC's...
HTPC's...
laptops...
Let's face it, I've seen the TV-out feature on most laptops and it leaves a lot to be desired for (we have a number of laptops here: IBM, Toshiba, Dell, Fujitsu... and none of them even comes close to my Parhelia or G450 when it comes to image quality on a TV out or even user friendlyness).
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