Matrox very quiet?

[icemaker]

Do you think the near is end for the once great video card company called "Matrox" . I hope not but ....

[az]

Nobody knows, since they don't publish any numbers. If anything, they will survive serving niche markets, but ATi and nVidia are beginning to target those, too. If Matrox don't innovate, they will be left in the dust, IMHO.

AZ

[Mikko]

I believe Matrox is doing great and probably they make lots of profit, too. They have such a wide range of products, that they don't have to care about the gamers that much. Matrox has always been very innovative and they have plenty of products, witch their rivals don't have.

Quiet?

For a home user/gamer - YES, unfortunately.
For the professionals / corporate clients - NO, not at all!

They have already released a huge range of graphic cards this year:
- Several cards for their medical market,
- Parhelia Precision SGT (for high-frequency greyscale stereo displays)
- QID Pro
- Couple of Low-Profile cards (including P650, the industry's smallest DualHead graphics card),
- Parhelia PCI with Video-IN (for government / corporate clients etc.)

In addition, Matrox Parhelia HR256 is probably still the only card to provide full support for the new 9MP displays at their highest refresh rate.

And we should not forget their video editing products and their imaging hardware (frame grabbers, smart cameras etc.)

[Admiral]

At this point I couldn't care less about what Matrox does. It's been more than three years since I changed my G400 and I've had four cards from as many chip manufacturers since then.

I don't have any gaming expectations from them but they could at least make a cheap, good office card, for around 100$.

[Mcollector]

Well, I hope Matrox doesn't abandon the graphics card market. If they were going to pull out of something, I suspect that, then continue their niche playing elsewhere. Unfortunately, they are not a mainstream major market player anymore.

As to a cheap, decent office card for around $100, what about the Millennium G550, retail box, at $125 direct from Matrox? Dual head expanded desktop too! Might even be less than $100 new if you shop around.

[Admiral]

The G550 is 150$ here, I was thinking something in the lines of P650 for 100$,
To be honest, they have the office cards, it's just that the prices aren't right.

[Mcollector]

You should be able to order direct from Matrox Canada for $125 US. But maybe with overseas shipping and customs, it comes out more there, or maybe that is the US price because they ship from a warehouse in the US to US destinations. The G550 is a bit old and too little RAM for $150, so you're right, a $100 P650 would be better.

I'd still like a G550 of my own for testing (need a G450, too). I've only bought one for a customer so far. I'm going to try to trade him a FireGL2 for his G550 and $35.

[Marshmallowman]

Matrox will never entirley abandon the graphic card market as it ties in to heavily with their medical imaging and video stuff.

But don't expect to much in the way of consumer graphic cards.

[Sasq]

You guys know the product cycles, we all just have to wait and see.

[schmosef]

Is it time for the ass-casting cycle to come around again?

Seriously, did anyone ever use that feature? Like even once?

[Kastuvas]

Have you guys seen the new matrox website. I think they are moving more and more away from home consumer market into more specialised corporate :/

I mean couple of years ago you had to dig deep in to their website to find out about their medical products and pecialised stuff and now its all over the front page.

[Wombat]

It's all they have left. They screwed up in every other market they were in.

[az]

And it's probably th market with the highest margin anyway.

AZ

[Wombat]

Yeah. I guess if you're only going to sell 5 cards, that's the right market to do it in.

[Byock]

Honestly. I think very few people run a Matrox card in the gaming rig anymore. The market moved on, and Matrox has shown no interest in continuing in the home pc market.