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What happened to Matrox?

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In the Voodoo2 days there were 3dfx, Nvidia, ATI and Matrox. 3dfx is very dead, and Nvidia/ATI get all the press.

Whatever happened to Matrox? The last I heard of them was the parhelia and that was a while back. What are they doing now?
 
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In the Voodoo2 days there were 3dfx, Nvidia, ATI and Matrox. 3dfx is very dead, and Nvidia/ATI get all the press.

Whatever happened to Matrox? The last I heard of them was the parhelia and that was a while back. What are they doing now?
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they couldnt give a fuck about the gaming market.
 
I dont know wtf youre talking about but I just bought a 600 dollar Matrox QID and it very much kicks ass.
 
Matrox isn't dead, they just aren't in the gaming market, its very hard to keep up with ATI and NVIDIA these days, as others have tried and failed, read Volari, S3, Kyro, Parhelia.
 
advanced101101 said:
Nvidia bought 3Dfx, and they still make the Wildcat's under the 3dfx name
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3dlabs and 3dfx are two different companies
 
I still happily use my Parhelia. Triple-head, surround gaming goodness.

They just quietly released a new 8x version of Parhelia, and are mostly sticking to high end multi-monitor specialty cards (like the QID) and their NLE capture/editing cards.
 
Matrox Pioneered some amazing technology...I believe they were the first to come out quite a few (now standardized) features, although they always tended to be a bit of a sloth compared to the other cards, I believe they were focusing on different Ideals for their cards, not really games....this is where they messed up....if they would have focused on a gaming card it would probably be quite good, but they are into making products for workstations,CAD programs, and video editing...the cards are powerful and have rich color for those apps.

Parhelia 2 will be another one of the same cards....I can't honestly believe that after all these years they would try to take a stab at a gaming card now, so don't get your hopes up.
 
Matrox mostly works in the video editing industroy and for business multi-monitor applications. I've got some higher end Matrox crap at work. They're not dead by far, they just don't have a big interest in the retail or gaming sector.
 
They also do a lot of medical imaging type stuff, and a lot of govt/military contracts.
 
As pointed out by others, Matrox simply doesn't have any interest in the gaming market, instead focusing on other markets.

And I can't blame them. The gaming market is anything but profitable. Even ATI and nVidia wouldn't survive if it weren't for the GPUs they sell to OEMs.
 
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