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Nun ja, also eigentlich ist es genauso wie bei 3Dfx, nahezu die gleichen Gründe, nur ist es doch ganz anders.
Es schaut echt so aus, als das Matrox nun auch den Bach runter geht, liegt es doch an dem wirklich miserablen Auftritt der Parhelia GPU. Im Gegensatz zu 3Dfx war die Technik vorhanden, genutzt wurde sie jedoch nicht. Das merketing und die forschung hätte da sein müssen, genutzt hat dies jedoch auch nichts. es wird wohl so enden wie mit 3Dfx, knock out in der 7. runde, der gürtel geht an nVidia. und so wird man 3Dfx und Matrox bald in eine Ecke kehren, und sich als die grossen Beispiele falschen Marketings heraustellen, die nVidia mal wieder überlebt hat. 3DLabs hat ihr GPU auch nur dem Servermarkt zugeschrieben, aus Public wird wohl nix, insg. also eine düstere Geschichte!
Aber mom, bleibt ja immernoch ATI, ein hoffnungsvoller Chipgigant, mögest Du doch wenigstens Früchte tragen und nVidia überleben...
Aber lest doch selber:
Auszug von Guru 3D vom 26. Oktober, 2002
Something I've been thinking about and expecting for a while now is slowly taking form. As it seems things are really not looking good for graphics card manufacurer Matrox. Although a really nice card, Matrox completely missed the spot with the overpriced and competition wise outperformed Parhelia. To cover the R&D of a graphics card well .. you need to sell a lot.
Latest rumors from Matrox Users Resource Centre seem to confirm the situation among Matrox. In a reaction from a former employee of Matrox he claims that the company is nearing the end of it's life-cycle. Most important aspect of the situation is a failing management that consistanly makes the wrong decisions and highlights the wrong priorities. Furthermore too little is invested in R&D. Also marketing a department that changes their thoughts every 30 seconds on what the target audience is and a way too slow product cycle.
Pretty hefty words I'd say. Combine all that with non-motivated empleyees as they have not had a raise in the past three years seems to slowly lead into a doom scenario. It all got worse a while ago when the management decided to donate 20 million USD to a university while it did not even pay out overtime to it's employees. Anyway, these are just some of the rumors that come from ex Matrox employees. Will this company survive or will it end like 3dfx ?
in the last set of lay-offs most of the support was decimated.. there is no longer a hardware compatibility test group.. software testing (driver, apps, etc) is reduced to about 10 people as usual the end user support trees were chopped.. marketing, sales, and eng. were left untouched.. luckily tsup managed not to get cut this time.. Unfortunately Haig, and the customers are the ones who are going to suffer again since his support tree is almost gone..
why is matrox failing..
Financially most people haven't got raises there in about 3 years, paid overtime stopped 2 years ago, no more bonuses..and they cut all benefits by about 30% morale in the place is at the bottom. if you're still working there it's because you just waiting for the severance package..and that's the attitude most people have there Yet the owners donate 20million to a local university in this time of financial decline..
why is parhelia doing so poorly.. I think back to a converstation I had with one of the chief HW engs. his quote "Most company's have a dartboard that represent that market.. we throw the dart then draw the circles" marketing could never make up their mind what market the product would sell to.. each week they changed their minds. so the testing/fixing priorities would keep shifting.. hence you have a product that's mediocre in all categories
Marketing doesn't talk to the outside world.. they believe that they have an inate knowledge of the products people want.. hence we have 20 people programming "e-dualhead" and such cutting edge technology like max headroom.. rather than working on OGL code..
Re-investment in RD is almost NIL.. if you look at anand's review of inside NVidia.. they day it was released on the web.. matrox's asic, and HW eng teams unanimously agreed... company is finshed.. they need to invest close to 500million to have the same setup.. if they did invest in that equipment then. parhelia would have been released on time.. which was about 2 years ago.. it's not liek we didn't try.. we asked for and FIB machine repeatedly starting about 4 years ago...
many good projects were dropped.. ex: video in a chipset.. they would have released it before intel.. but it was pulled.. at 90% completion!!!! it was already taped out!! and they stopped the chip run..because at the end they didn't think it was viable.. they even dropped the second stage low power north bridge with video for laptops..
production goof ups.. Overproduction when it's not needed..forgetting to order parts.. hence too many 4x parhelias, and they won't sell the 8X until the 4X is gone.. while the 8X is only 20% faster but it fixes pretty much all the problems people are seeing in the 4X..
expierience.. there are only about 50 people in matrox that have been there more than 5 years, with the last layoff that number has dropped, most of the guys who design the chip, and are writing the drivers have less than 3 year expierience in doing this.. hence you always have less performance per clock than the competition. and they don't have a single analog asic eng.. so when it comes to timings inside the asic, they always miss. that's been the clocking issues since the G450.. and they're not willing to pay the required salary to hire this type of engineer..
This pretty much sums up what needs fixing there (all of the mangagement).. anyone you ask will agree..
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und wieder fällt einer der letzten Mammutbäume 
mfg hawki
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- matrox is ne kleine kanadische firma die für workstations grakas herstellt! - der 3D-Markt ist nicht deren markt!!! 
