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Matrox Electronic Systems
Type Private
Founded 1976
Headquarters Montreal, Canada
Industry Computer
Products Graphic cards
Employees 900+
Website www.matrox.com

Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd is a Canadian company based in Dorval, Quebec, which produces video card components and equipment for personal computers. The term privately held company refers to ownership of a business company in two different ways first referring to ownership by non-governmental organizations and second For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" Computer industry is a collective term used to describe the whole range of businesses involved in developing Computer software, designing Computer hardware and In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need A video card, also known as a graphics accelerator card, display adapter, or graphics card, is a hardware component whose function is to Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Dorval (dɔrˈvæl is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, in the southwestern part of the Island of Montreal; pop A video card, also known as a graphics accelerator card, display adapter, or graphics card, is a hardware component whose function is to A personal computer ( PC) is any Computer whose original sales price size and capabilities make it useful for individuals and which is intended to be operated It was founded by Lorne Trottier and Branko Matić. Lorne M Trottier, CM, (born 15 June 1948) is a co-founder of Matrox, a computer corporation Branko Matić PhD EE is the chairman president co-owner and co-founder of Matrox. The "ma" from Matić and "tro" from Trottier, combined with an "x" for excellence, forms the Matrox name.

Matrox specializes in professional multi-display graphics cards that enable more than one monitor to be driven by a single card. The targeted user-base for Matrox graphics cards largely consists of 2D, 3D, video, scientific, medical, military and financial workstation users.

During the 1990s, Matrox's Millennium line of video cards were noted for their exceptional 2D speed and visual quality. The company, having chosen to focus development on enterprise graphics requirements, gradually fell behind others in terms of 3D performance leaving competitors to absorb the mainstream graphics market share. In the 2000s, Matrox has continued to shift the focus of its card designs towards specialized, niche markets, moving more deeply into enterprise, industrial, and government applications. In recent years they have held no more than a 3–5% share of the total video card market.

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Three divisions

Matrox is now divided in three divisions: Matrox Graphics, Matrox Video, and Matrox Imaging. Matrox Graphics is the primary consumer and end-user brand, while Matrox Video markets digital video editing solutions, and Matrox Imaging sells high-end video capture systems and "smart cameras", video cameras with a built-in computer for machine vision applications. Machine vision (MV System is the application of Computer vision to industry and manufacturing

Driver Support

To support Unix and Linux, Matrox has released binary only drivers for most of their product line and one partially open source driver for the G550 card which comes with a binary blob to enable some additional functionality. Open source is a development methodology which offers practical accessibility to a product's source (goods and knowledge In open source culture, binary blob is a pejorative term for an object file loaded into the kernel of a free or open source In addition to the proprietry drivers provided by Matrox the DRI community has provided fully GPL'd drivers for many more of the devices. In Computing, the Direct Rendering Infrastructure ( DRI) is an interface and a Free software implementation used in the X Window System [1][2]

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Computer graphics are Graphics created by Computers and more generally the Representation and Manipulation of Pictorial Data The RTX100 Pro Suite is a real-time PCI Video editing card manufactured by Matrox Corporation
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