Another manufacturer of graphics cards, though not so much now. Google. Not a surprise that neither they nor S3's discrete cards no longer show at all with that many decimal places.
outwar6010
Wth is matrox?
The Nvidia of the 90's.
bridges009
outwar6010
Wth is matrox?
The Nvidia of the 90's.
Ahh the hours I spent trying to track down the Mystique patch for Tombraider..
… the most recent quarter looks very much as if it is a ‘break out’ quarter …
… The downward trend line has been well and truly smashed through and often such a statistical feature means that a trend has been broken …
Curious set of interpretations there; the total sales figures were still below those for both Q3 and Q4 2014, and the results are entirely in keeping a steady declining trend - the actual sales barely make it above the trend line, so I don't know where you got “smashed through” from. The seasonal dips in both ‘14 and ’15 were larger than in previous years without a balancing increase in the seasonal peaks, so the most recent increase is from a very low baseline, which is going to make the percentage growth look better; at best, it looks like this quarter has prevented an acceleration in the decline of add-in board shipments. They're still down almost 4% year-on-year….
Matrox were basically the forefront in multidisplay set ups, basically the way eyefinity on AMD works but much much much simpler. Made 3 screens look like 1 huge screen via a little box between the GPU and the screens or as an actual GPU. They slowly died down because their GPUs just didn't advance in the sheer grunt area like AMD + NVidia did.
Ahhhh Matrox……I still remember the days of G200 + Voodoo2 SLI!
I honestly think that AMD doesn't stand a chance against Nvidia.
Worms
I honestly think that AMD/nvidia doesn't stand a chance against intel.
I've corrected your error…….
shaithis
Ahhhh Matrox……I still remember the days of G200 + Voodoo2 SLI!
Have you had Voodoo 2 SLI??!?1/!/!
You lucky …man!
I was dreaming about one Voodoo!
Now I know why I haven't had it you did have mine!
abaxas
I've corrected your error…….
Yes, the steady increase in integrated graphics must have Nvidia very worried. Currently they are selling expensive cards like the 970 and 980 very well, but they can't keep making the cards more expensive and their market share to Intel for all those non gaming machines (the bulk of the market) isn't ever coming back. Intel have made sure that Nvidia are not legally able to make an x86 cpu (which I think it a real shame, their ARM architecture is interesting and we could do with another player).
I still have & used my matrox millennium, in those days We had SiS VGA cards cheap & cheerful and Nvidia Riva TNT that as a great card. Matrox Parhelia was ment to be the next Big Thing, but it was too hyped up.
Nvidia still dominating strongly.
man if they had just released that fury at 400….
I'm guessing that nvidia had got an amazing card up their sleeve, hidden from public view until AMD release a card that the public believes is more worthy of competition
AMD regaining some market share can only be a good thing for consumers.
AMD are releasing quality cards and will be for a foreseeable future. Nvidia might have something up their sleeve which they will reveal but AMD's momentum will be difficult to stop.
It will be interesting to see if AMD can maintain this market share or if it was just a one-of with the release of the Fury X, Fury, and R9 series of cards which had large sales pre-launch but quickly withered after the reviews started pouring out (good cards, mind, just not up to the hype AMD lead us to believe).
In the meantime, AMD financials for the same quarter for the graphics and CPU (err APU) division was interesting. Slightly larger sales yes, but with a larger loss at the same time. AMD also once again had their profit margin (gross margin) drop. AMD now makes less than half as much profit on their sales as NVidia does. It is like AMD is selling at cost and taking losses just to maintain some sort of market share.