December 1, 1999, Montreal, Canada - Visitors to Matrox Imaging's website will notice something very different the next time they go to www.matrox.com/imaging/. The site has undergone a complete redesign to better reflect Matrox Imaging's role as a leading designer and manufacturer of PC-based hardware and software for scientific and industrial imaging.

October 5, 1999, Montreal, Canada - Matrox Imaging today announced its latest software release - Matrox Inspector 3.0. This version of the field-proven interactive imaging software adds new and enhanced functionality to its comprehensive feature set.

October 5, 1999, Montreal, Canada - Matrox Imaging today introduced its latest frame grabber, Matrox Orion. This cost-effective and multi-faceted board supports standard color/monochrome video capture and integrates a display section based on the award-winning MGA G400 graphics controller - providing leading edge graphics features and performance.

October 5, 1999, Montreal, Canada - With IEEE 1394 emerging as a new standard for connecting to industrial/scientific cameras, Matrox Imaging today introduces Matrox Meteor-II/1394 - an IEEE 1394-to-PCI adapter board that enables simplified, high-performance digital video capture using a PC.

June 28, 1999, Montreal, Canada - The privately held Matrox group of companies, which includes Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd. (MES) and Matrox Graphics Inc. (MGI), today announced their 23rd consecutive year of profitability with joint sales totaling US$550 million for the 1998/99 fiscal year, ended March 31, 1999. Of that total, Matrox Graphics accounts for US$473 million and Matrox Electronic Systems for US$77 million.

May 11, 1999, Detroit, MI, USA – Matrox Imaging, a division of the Matrox Corporate Group and leading supplier of PC-based vision hardware and software components to OEMs and system integrators, today announced a new imaging platform for cost-sensitive machine vision, medical imaging, video surveillance and embedded applications at the Robots and Vision Show '99.

March 22, 1999, Montreal, Canada - Matrox Imaging, a division of the Matrox Corporate Group and leading supplier of PC-based vision hardware and software components to OEMs and system integrators, today announced CompactPCI^®and PC/104-Plus™ versions of its Matrox Meteor-II PCI frame grabbers.

March 10, 1999, Montreal, Canada - Matrox Imaging today announced that the Motion JPEG compression/decompression module for Matrox Meteor-II series PCI frame grabbers is now shipping.

February 23, 1999, Montreal, Canada - Matrox Imaging today announced version 6.0 of the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL). Additions and enhancements to this award-winning package make it one of the most comprehensive development tools for OEMs and system integrators building machine vision, medical imaging and image analysis systems.

February 23, 1999, Montreal, Canada - Matrox Imaging, a division of the Matrox Corporate Group and supplier of PC-based vision hardware and software components to OEMs and system integrators, today announced that Speedline Technologies uses the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) and Matrox Meteor-II series frame grabbers as vision subsystems.

January 13, 1999, Montreal, Canada - Matrox Imaging today announced that Matrox Genesis scalable vision processors and Matrox Genesis-LC frame grabbers now support the Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS) standard for interfacing to digital output cameras.

January 6, 1999, Montreal, Canada - Matrox Imaging today announced the creation of an on-line discussion forum for registered users of Matrox Imaging products. This forum will be a place on the Matrox Imaging web site where developers can share their experiences working with Matrox Imaging technology.

November 28, 1998, Montreal, Canada - Matrox Imaging, a division of the Matrox Corporate Group and supplier of advanced PC vision hardware and software, and Image Connectivity Sweden AB (ICS), an expert developer and jointly-owned company of Helax AB and Precitron AB, today announced that the award-winning Matrox Genesis vision processor board was chosen for ICS' IMCON/ORION simulator workstation, a new device replacing the fluoroscopic monitors found on conventional commercial simulators used in radiotherapy treatment planning.

September 29, 1998, Montreal, Canada - Matrox Imaging today announced availability of the Matrox Meteor-II/Digital PCI frame grabber, enabling cost-effective, digital vision systems for machine vision and medical imaging applications.

August 31, 1998 Dorval, Montreal, Canada - Matrox Imaging today announced that Semiconductor Technologies and Instruments Inc. (STI) has chosen Matrox as a vision component supplier for its complete product line of wafer inspection systems, semiconductor lead and package inspection machines as well as OEM engines for integrated laser marking modules.

July 27, 1998, Montreal, Canada - Matrox Imaging today announced QNX® real-time operating system (RTOS) support for several of its frame grabber boards, award-winning scalable vision processor and field-proven imaging library.

June 29, 1998, Montreal, Canada - Matrox Imaging today announced availability of the Matrox Meteor-II/Multi-Channel PCI frame grabber, giving developers of vision systems the most cost-effective tool for digitizing video from a variety of cameras, including progressive scan devices.

June 15, 1998, Montreal, Canada - The Matrox Imaging Products Group today announced increased processing power as a standard feature of the award-winning Matrox Genesis scalable PCI vision processor, at no extra cost to customers.

April 28, 1998, Montreal, Canada - Matrox Imaging today announced availability of Matrox Inspector version 2.2, with optimizations for Intel MMX™ technology and support for new Matrox PCI frame grabbers.

November 13, 1997, Montreal, Canada - The Matrox Imaging Products Group, a leader and innovator in providing PC hardware and software development tools to OEMs, system integrators and professional end-users, today announced ActiveMIL-Lite 1.0, a collection of ActiveX controls (OCXs) for building Windows-based scientific, industrial and other imaging applications using rapid application development (RAD) tools.

October 31, 1997, Montreal, Canada - The Matrox Imaging Products Group, a leader and innovator in providing PC hardware and software development tools to OEMs, system integrators and professional users, today announced that the Factory Automation Division of Seiko Instruments USA, Inc. will use award-winning Matrox imaging technology as part of its Vision Guide 2.0 robot vision system for Windows NT.

May 13, 1997, Robots & Vision Show, Detroit, MI – Today, the Matrox Imaging Products Group announced Matrox Genesis-LC, an advanced PCI frame grabber for OEMs and integrators involved in industrial, medical, and scientific imaging.

July 14, 1997, Montreal, Canada - New benchmarks announced today by Matrox show the added value of developing host-based applications using scientific/industrial software optimized for Intel MMX™ technology.

May 13, 1997, Robots & Vision Show, Detroit, MI – Today, the Matrox Imaging Products Group announced revision 2.1 of Matrox Inspector, Windows-based imaging software. For OEMs and integrators of machine vision, medical imaging, and image analysis systems, Matrox Inspector 2.1 allows testing and validating of image processing algorithms without programming.

scientific /industrial imaging systems to use complex video devices

November 19, 1996, Montreal, Canada - Today, the Matrox Imaging Products Group announced Matrox Intellicam 2.0, 32-bit camera interface software for Windows NT and 95.

November 19 1996, Montreal, Canada - Today, the Matrox Imaging Products Group announced a new revision to its high-level Matrox Imaging Library (MIL), a set of optimized 'C' functions used to develop machine vision, medical imaging, and image analysis applications.

July 9, 1996, Montreal, Canada - Today, the Matrox Imaging Products Group announces Matrox Genesis, a PCI image processor for developing machine vision, medical imaging, and image analysis applications.

March 14, 1996, Montreal, Canada - The year 1996 marks twenty years of innovation in high technology for Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd. (MES), a leading manufacturer of computer hardware and software for the imaging, graphics, and video sectors. Founded in 1976 by two electrical engineers, Matrox has steadily grown from a handful of employees to over 700, with sales growing from $186 000 for the first year to the over $250 million USD expected for 1995/96.

January 30, 1996, Photonics West '96 (Electronic Imaging), San Jose, CA – Today Matrox announced the Matrox Pulsar-LC, an advanced, flexible PCI grabber providing analog and digital acquisition and real-time transfers. Matrox Pulsar was designed specifically for imaging applications that require powerful acquisition and transfer with no display.

November 20, 1995, Montreal, Canada - Perception Inc., a medical device development company; and Matrox, a supplier of PC-based imaging technology, today announced shipment of the first clinical evaluation units of a PC-based ultrasound imaging system. The "HRS Scanner System" is a cost-effective alternative to hard-wired ultrasound systems, and Perception will be able to provide continually better price/performance as new generations of more powerful, yet less expensive PCs hit the market.

September 5, 1995, Montreal, Canada - New benchmarks announced today by Matrox provide a glimpse into the future for imaging applications developed using the 32-bit Matrox Imaging Library (MIL-32).

May 9, 1995, Robots and Vision, Detroit, Michigan – Today Matrox announced MIL-32, a new 32-bit library for developing imaging applications for 32-bit Microsoft® environments. Depending on the function, MIL-32 can have comparable or better performance than expensive dedicated vision hardware.

May 9, 1995, Robots and Vision, Detroit, Michigan – Today Matrox announced Matrox Pulsar, the first PCI frame grabber that captures from standard and non-standard cameras at up to 45 MHz, provides real-time transfers, has 4 Megabytes of on-board memory and an integrated display of 1600 x 1200 - all at an unprecedented price.

April 24, 1995, Windows World '95/COMDEX Spring, Atlanta, Georgia – Today, Matrox announced Matrox Inspector 1.7, Windows™-based imaging software for scientific/industrial applications, that now adds sophisticated scripting to its extensive list of functions including image enhancement and analysis.