In "Super Classroom (287): Disappearing Third-Party Graphic Display Chips", a graphics technology company from Canada was introduced: Matrox. This is a veteran of graphics display technology that has undergone many technological and industry changes over the past few decades.
On October 21, 2021, Matrox celebrated its 45th anniversary. Its two divisions, Matrox Imaging and Matrox Video, have been operating longer than many other vendors in the professional AV/IT, broadcast, industrial imaging and machine vision markets. Although Matrox has no longer introduced graphics display chips, and its professional multi-screen graphics cards have switched to NVIDIA and AMD chips, they continue to introduce various innovative products.
Matrox launched IoT edge devices in 2021, released new software tools that leverage deep learning capabilities, launched the next generation of multi-4Kp60 encoders, continued to advance remote production efforts, and supported AV-over's open standards-IP space. Since its founding in 1976, Matrox has explored the consumer user market before shifting its focus to the specialty market, including digital signage, media and broadcasting, enterprise communications, manufacturing, medical imaging, and factory automation.
The Parhelia-512 is Matrox's last attempt to enter the gaming graphics market
Matrox Video's focus in recent years has been expanding the standards-based portfolio of uncompressed, light compression, and smart compression for content capture and processing, visualization, live encoding, recording, live streaming, IP KVM extension and switching, decoding, and AV distribution over IP. Matrox Video's broadcast OEM products will continue to form the basis for broadcast graphics systems, set-top box systems, video servers, and other PC and cloud-based video solutions. Matrox Imaging will continue to revolutionize its products for deep learning training and inference, 3D imaging and vision guidance for robotics applications to meet the growing demands of the automation market.