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Funky French stuff
Since the information in the first post was good (before it turned stupid and got locked), I thought I would post the translation here for those of you too lazey to have a look.
Translation:
According to this post of the forum of PlanèteNews, Matrox would make many advertisements but also some denials. Here a digest of this post. First of all, the member of Matrox France wanted to point out the strategic policy of Matrox. Matrox, entirely deprived company, were created 25 years ago in Montreal by two engineers, Branco Matic and Lorne Trottier, with an aim of conceiving and of proposing solutions of total visualization. Thus, Matrox developed four quite distinct divisions which are: Broadcast (processors and cards), for video acquisition Imaging (processors, cards and development software), for the image processing, Network (Hubs), for the transport of flows vidéos and graphs and Graphics (processors and cards), for the display of these same images This strategy is certainly one of the fundamental reasons which tends to differentiate us from companies like Nvidia (manufacturer of graphics processors) or from ATI (manufacturers of processors and graphics boards), which are present only on the market of Graphics. Then, we learn that a new version of DualHead will be born (there were 3 of it since 1999 and the 3rd date of February 2001, one can thus conclude that from here the end of the year or the next year, a new version will come out). For Matrox, one of the factors of the fall of 3DFX is that this last was addressed only to Hardcore Gamers, and it is for that that Matrox is a little everywhere. Moreover Matrox sees many defects there: the cycle of launching and life of the products is 6 months, only a manufacturer of processors can respect this rate/rhythm; not a manufacturer of processors AND cards... The costs of launching are enormous (publicity, packaging...) Profitability is very low because of amazing investments in R&D. Here some information on its " financial health ". Matrox is a private company, functioning on these own capital stocks. Within this framework, no financial information can be revealed. I can nevertheless bring some precise details to you: Matrox was always advantageous since its creation; it is one of the reasons for which we never called upon investors Matrox works on stable markets and with very strong potential (multi-monitors, image processing, video acquisition via its various divisions) Matrox privileges customers stable and serious (OEM) and finally let us not forget that Matrox is today the oldest graphic company with 25 years of experiment and innovation. It is not finished. Concerning OpenGL, Matrox does not find yet a priority there... No alliance is to date possible. It is not envisaged today to come out a reduced solution RT2000. Solution RT2000 is a growing success and knew to arouse the interest of companies as APPLE which helped us to develop solution RT Mac. Solution RT2000 is positioned as a semi-professional solution of assembly. Its versatility and its great number of professional functions knew to fill at the same time the amateurs, the users informed and the professionals. As regards G800 and G550, I make a point of restoring a truth baffouée by many Web sites. The " G800 " was only one pure fabrication of Web sites which speculated in the functions and the name of the next graphics boards Matrox. As for the " G550 ", strictly no information relating to the name, the specifications and the functions was officellement confirmed by Matrox. The first site to have published these rumours was a Russian site...
Ali
Translation:
According to this post of the forum of PlanèteNews, Matrox would make many advertisements but also some denials. Here a digest of this post. First of all, the member of Matrox France wanted to point out the strategic policy of Matrox. Matrox, entirely deprived company, were created 25 years ago in Montreal by two engineers, Branco Matic and Lorne Trottier, with an aim of conceiving and of proposing solutions of total visualization. Thus, Matrox developed four quite distinct divisions which are: Broadcast (processors and cards), for video acquisition Imaging (processors, cards and development software), for the image processing, Network (Hubs), for the transport of flows vidéos and graphs and Graphics (processors and cards), for the display of these same images This strategy is certainly one of the fundamental reasons which tends to differentiate us from companies like Nvidia (manufacturer of graphics processors) or from ATI (manufacturers of processors and graphics boards), which are present only on the market of Graphics. Then, we learn that a new version of DualHead will be born (there were 3 of it since 1999 and the 3rd date of February 2001, one can thus conclude that from here the end of the year or the next year, a new version will come out). For Matrox, one of the factors of the fall of 3DFX is that this last was addressed only to Hardcore Gamers, and it is for that that Matrox is a little everywhere. Moreover Matrox sees many defects there: the cycle of launching and life of the products is 6 months, only a manufacturer of processors can respect this rate/rhythm; not a manufacturer of processors AND cards... The costs of launching are enormous (publicity, packaging...) Profitability is very low because of amazing investments in R&D. Here some information on its " financial health ". Matrox is a private company, functioning on these own capital stocks. Within this framework, no financial information can be revealed. I can nevertheless bring some precise details to you: Matrox was always advantageous since its creation; it is one of the reasons for which we never called upon investors Matrox works on stable markets and with very strong potential (multi-monitors, image processing, video acquisition via its various divisions) Matrox privileges customers stable and serious (OEM) and finally let us not forget that Matrox is today the oldest graphic company with 25 years of experiment and innovation. It is not finished. Concerning OpenGL, Matrox does not find yet a priority there... No alliance is to date possible. It is not envisaged today to come out a reduced solution RT2000. Solution RT2000 is a growing success and knew to arouse the interest of companies as APPLE which helped us to develop solution RT Mac. Solution RT2000 is positioned as a semi-professional solution of assembly. Its versatility and its great number of professional functions knew to fill at the same time the amateurs, the users informed and the professionals. As regards G800 and G550, I make a point of restoring a truth baffouée by many Web sites. The " G800 " was only one pure fabrication of Web sites which speculated in the functions and the name of the next graphics boards Matrox. As for the " G550 ", strictly no information relating to the name, the specifications and the functions was officellement confirmed by Matrox. The first site to have published these rumours was a Russian site...
Ali
How did these websites get various people i.e. Amiga, various developers, John Carmack etc to mention the G800 by name?
) what they have up their sleeves.
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