Matrox: We Create Monitor Envy

Matrox is the other Canadian graphics board maker (#2 behind ATI, now part of AMD). They used to target the CAD industry, as well as medical and business environments with their boards. But they got bored with CAD, and then got into doing multi-monitor displays.

Yesterday their press release landed in my Inbox, and I almost didn't look at the attached graphics, because it was in a ZIP file. (Who puts a single highly-compressed JPEG image into a ZIP file?)

Anyhow, this picture oughta create a case of monitor envy that you might not have yet:




Yah, so that's 16 monitors. I'll let the press release headline and subhead explain it:

Matrox Announces World’s First Single-Slot PCIe x16 Octal Graphics Card for Mission-Critical Environments.

Matrox M9188 supports up to eight DisplayPort or DVI Single-Link outputs and can be combined with a second M9188 to drive up to 16 displays, all from a single workstation.

The board contains 2GB RAM to drive resolutions of up to 2560x1600 per monitor, and costs $1,995. Lessee, 2 x $1995 for the two boards, plus 8 x $300 for hi-es monitors = $6,390. Sales tax additional. Available by year's end.

www.matrox.com/graphics

Comments

[Tony]

Actually, it's more a matter that Matrox got their butt kicked in 3D graphics (by ATI & Nvidia) - as far as I can tell, they never figured out accelerated 3D graphics.

They also make a lot of nice machine vision software and hardware, and IIRC, broadcast oriented stuff.

[Jerry Sarfati]

Actually $6400 isn't that bad for the entire kit. It wasn't that long ago when just the CAD graphics card cost $10000.

[kdjanz]

Actually, 2 cards at $4000 drive 16 monitors, so 16x300=$4800 for a grand total of $8800 or over $10K with tax and GST.

But think of the bragging rights...

Kelly