VigilAnt Rant and Some Observations

[GNEP]

To quote Dad's Army: "We're all Doomed! Doomed I Say"

Oh, hold on a minute; we're talking about a company that has been producing a component for computer systems for which there are many and various substitutes... problem? What problem?

[Le_Bob]

Pitou

I wonder, why did Matrox release P if PII was three months from being taped out?


Wouldn't it had been better to wait 3 months and release PII instead of releasing a bad P?

[UtwigMU]

Check netcraft.

Matrox is switching to linux from solaris,

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.matrox.com

[ganyaik]

I just don't know why they released P, did a fixed version of it and taped out P2 if they knew that they're gonna close? Was it a quick decision or what? Any ideas?
They might have been able to make some money coming back from development investments by releasing the fixed P or the P2. Am I totally wrong with this?

[Cobos]

Well that should fit nicely with a company cutting costs not one going completely under... Though the change might be for the video divisions benefit

Cobos

[3dfx]

So it really is that bad then ??

[Kurt]

a Radeon 9700 pro core with Matrox board making quality and drivers...who knows? they might have to bastardize their production to survive...(ATi is still leagues better than nvidia as far as 2D output is concerned...)

[DentyCracker]

All I need now is AMD to go bust. Then a lot of the fun will have been taken out of building my own machines, I might as well buy a prebuilt machine then. UGH!!
/me is very disappointed in the stupidity of some people.

OTOH If this is true then I might be able to get a cheap Parhelia next year sometime.

[Ant]

Lets hope Matrox had no R&D projects with AMD at their Boca facility that they cancelled along with closing it down.

[GT98]

Originally posted by Kurt
a Radeon 9700 pro core with Matrox board making quality and drivers...who knows? they might have to bastardize their production to survive...(ATi is still leagues better than nvidia as far as 2D output is concerned...)

Remember people..Matrox as a whole is Privately owned Company and doesnt have to answer to investors. The Owners can do whatever they want with the company and its alot easier just to kill off the Graphics end if its not making any money and contrate on the markets that make you money like the Video editing end of it, since its their money going into their pockets.

The Parhelia was their last/best shot at getting back into the 3D end of the market, but several factors hindered it from becoming successful and the increased performance that the compitition is offering hinders it. The Parhelia in its current form would have been more accecepted by the market if it came out last fall and not this past spring. If that happened we might not even be talking about MGI going bye bye in the next couple months.

[ganyaik]

What did they R&D at Boca? Do you know?
Closing everything down with 3 unreleased cards somehow doesn't make sense for me(fixed P, P2, beefed up G550(as rumoured previously here)).

[thop]

Originally posted by ganyaik
beefed up G550

maybe we will finally witness the arrival of the G800

[3dfx]

If Matrox are going down it would be nice to see them going out with a bang like 3dfx and remembered as a great company unfortunately they have a lot of pissed off customers

[GT98]

Originally posted by thop

maybe we will finally witness the arrival of the G800

Well I'll guess we'll have a postmortom on Matrox Graphics in the next year or so...just like 3Dfx...find out where and what the hell went wrong after the G400

[3dfx]

Even though I dont want Matrox to go down, I would like to hear all the Gory detail as it werE!