Dorval Canada-based Matrox is the oldest continuously operating graphics add-in board company in the world. It started in 1979 before IBM introduced the PC. Matrox’s first AIB was the ALT-256 for ...
Intel saw the rise in discrete graphics controllers such as NEC’s µPD7220 (and even licensed it), Hitachi’s HD63484, and the several clones of IBM’s EGA, and conclude Intel was leaving a socket ...