The Quad Video Series becomes the first single board to provide multi-display support for up to four monitors, establishing Matrox as the first company to provide display solutions to the financial and business markets.

Matrox releases its first frame grabber, the FG-01 - a high-speed video analog to digital converter card for Multibus intended to be used with the Matrox RGB-256 graphics display controller cards. The FG-01 permits the user to digitize a standard monochrome video signal and, on command, write one digitized field of video information into the RGB-256 display refresh memory.

Matrox introduces the Multibus-compatible VAF-512 frame grabber designed to extend the performance of the Matrox RGB-GRAPH video controller and the RGB-ALPHA programmable color alphanumeric display controller. These three boards lay the groundwork for future Matrox products.

Matrox launches its first imaging processing board, the MIP-512, which provides acquisition, storage and display capabilities combined with basic image processing functions for the Multibus platform.

The Matrox MVP-AT breaks ground as the first PC frame grabber with RGB capture and acceleration. This double-slot, hardware-accelerated image processing board set combines color/monochrome acquisition, real-time processing and true-color display - establishing Matrox as a serious contender in the image processing arena.

Matrox UK Limited opens up in England as Matrox's European headquarters for Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd.

The revolutionary Image Series product is released. This multi-board set delivers completely flexible and programmable acquisition, as well as high-resolution, true-color graphics and real-time image processing, plus sets a new industry standard with six custom chips that provide real-time pipelined "neighborhood" image processing.

Matrox Vision, an interactive windows application software package, is designed for the Image Series.

Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) 1.0 is launched, making Matrox the first imaging vendor to provide a hardware-independent software library. MIL 1.0 is a Windows/DOS 16-bit processing library with two high-level modules - pattern matching and blob analysis. To this day, MIL - with over 1,000 processing functions, is the development tool of choice for the machine vision, scientific and medical imaging markets.

Matrox releases first version (1.5) of the popular, hardware-independent Inspector prototyping tool for scientific and industrial applications.

Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) 3.0 is the first in the industry to fully support 32-bit code for Windows NT and DOS.

Matrox Imaging introduces the Genesis Series, incorporating a multiple award-winning vision processing engine that integrates flexible acquisition, real-time processing and high-resolution display. This line of cards sets a new performance standard for PC-based imaging systems with its highly pipelined, parallel-processing architecture.

Inspector 2.0 supports 32-bit code for Windows NT and DOS.

Matrox becomes the first imaging vendor to exploit Intel's MMX technology, in MIL 5.0. An OCX version of MIL, called ActiveMIL, is also developed at this time.

Matrox Asia is established in Hong Kong to increase the company's manufacturing capabilities and to develop product sales in the Asia-Pacific Rim area.

Matrox Imaging expands into a new market area with its innovative 4Sight family of industrial vision computers that integrates capture, processing, display, networking and general purpose I/O on one compact platform.

Matrox supports the new Camera Link^CM digital serial interface with its Meteor-II/CameraLink frame grabber.