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. It was founded by Lorne Trottier and Branko Matić. The "ma" from Matić and "tro" from Trottier, combined with an "x" for excellence, forms the Matrox name. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... 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, referring to ownership of the companys stock by a relatively small number of holders who do not trade the stock publicly. ... Computer industry is a collective term used to describe the whole range of businesses involved in developing computer software, designing computer hardware, the manufacture of computer components and the provision of information technology services. ... A GeForce 4 4200-based graphics card A graphics card or video card is a component of a computer which is designed to convert a logical representation of an image stored in memory to a signal that can be used as input for a display medium, most often a monitor... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... Dorval is a former city in southwestern Quebec, Canada in the western part of the Island of Montreal; pop. ... A graphics/video/display card/board/adapter is a computer component designed to convert the logical representation of visual information into a signal that can be used as input for a display medium. ... Lorne M. Trottier is the co-founder of Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd. ... Branko Matic Ph. ...

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. For the band, see 1990s (band). ...

Device drivers for the Matrox G550 graphics card are open source. [1]

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) is the application of computer vision to industry and manufacturing. ...

See also

• Computer graphics
• Graphics chip
• Graphics processing unit
• Matrox RT.X100
• ATI Technologies, the other major Canadian video graphics card company

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External links

• Official website
• Identify Matrox chips
• Unofficial open-source Linux drivers and support forum