sbp
10-27-2002, 10:39 PM
The link contains an editorial that originally appeared on the front of http://www.matroxusers.com
http://forums.matroxusers.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36922
a snip: To cut to the core of what is on my mind personally after visiting my ties with Matrox one on one, they are hurting. Let me clarify a bit, I have spoken with, in person, several individuals who have lost their jobs at Matrox, and others who have left recently to move on to greener pastures. Matrox is ill right now. I predicted it last year when in my article Haig For President. They needed to follow through with professional attention to the fine details on the Parhelia project, and it seems they have fumbled the ball for the most part. As a result, Matrox's video card division is ailing and rapidly dwindling in size. The cause of this seems to be the same cause that I described then. Mismanagement by people who need to step aside and allows those who know what the winds are in the industry (people like Haig and his staff). Matrox's owners need to step up those in charge of the development of the Parhelia and those who made the key decisions that crippled the project and fix them. Right now, ASAP, the sooner the better.
This link is an email sent in response to the editorial: http://forums.matroxusers.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37155
It talks about tech support being slashed, the salary situation, aimless marketing and more. Some troubling snips:
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..
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Get the idea of mismanagement and bad company decisions?
Matrox's current situation is not good and especially grim for its videocard division.
Matrox has survived by concentrating on niche markets, but those markets is under assault. Matrox is going against ATI and Nvidia two aggressive companies with money.
Parhelia is an okay card but it costs too much for starters. It also launched with lukewarm drivers and lags behind Radeon 9700 feature wise. Soon the NV30 is announced to complicate matters.
Maybe this can be turned around.
http://forums.matroxusers.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36922
a snip: To cut to the core of what is on my mind personally after visiting my ties with Matrox one on one, they are hurting. Let me clarify a bit, I have spoken with, in person, several individuals who have lost their jobs at Matrox, and others who have left recently to move on to greener pastures. Matrox is ill right now. I predicted it last year when in my article Haig For President. They needed to follow through with professional attention to the fine details on the Parhelia project, and it seems they have fumbled the ball for the most part. As a result, Matrox's video card division is ailing and rapidly dwindling in size. The cause of this seems to be the same cause that I described then. Mismanagement by people who need to step aside and allows those who know what the winds are in the industry (people like Haig and his staff). Matrox's owners need to step up those in charge of the development of the Parhelia and those who made the key decisions that crippled the project and fix them. Right now, ASAP, the sooner the better.
This link is an email sent in response to the editorial: http://forums.matroxusers.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37155
It talks about tech support being slashed, the salary situation, aimless marketing and more. Some troubling snips:
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..
-----------
Get the idea of mismanagement and bad company decisions?
Matrox's current situation is not good and especially grim for its videocard division.
Matrox has survived by concentrating on niche markets, but those markets is under assault. Matrox is going against ATI and Nvidia two aggressive companies with money.
Parhelia is an okay card but it costs too much for starters. It also launched with lukewarm drivers and lags behind Radeon 9700 feature wise. Soon the NV30 is announced to complicate matters.
Maybe this can be turned around.