Matrox Squeezes Pixels from a 20-year Old Chip

This week Matrox, the eclectic pioneering Canadian graphics company who developed a 3D graphics controller in 1998 they called the G200, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. At the time it was a killer new part, coming on the heels of the programmable TI TMS34010 (which was not called a GPU at the time) and just ahead of the introduction of programmable devices that came to be known as GPUs. Matrox had been an important supplier to the high-end 2D graphics accelerator market before PCs and Windows and is credited as the first company to build a graphics board for a