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Press Release

For Immediate Release

Montreal, Canada, August 9, 1999 - Matrox Graphics Inc. today announced support for the next-generation AMD Athlon processor. The Matrox Millennium G400 Series benefits from the Athlon's incredible processing power, allowing graphics performance to scale exceptionally well with the increased capabilities of the overall platform.

"We are excited to be working with AMD," said Kamran Ahmed, Consumer Graphics Product Manager, Matrox Graphics Inc. "The new high-speed AMD Athlon processor is the perfect complement for the benchmark-winning Matrox Millennium G400 Series. The AMD Athlon processor's industry-leading performance and the Millennium G400 Series' advanced 2D, 3D, video acceleration and 3DNow! optimization bring the highest levels of speed and performance to the commercial desktop power user."

Complementing this speed, Matrox's advanced image quality and innovative features further leverage the Athlon's processing capabilities. As the first graphics cards to integrate support for Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping, the Matrox Millennium G400 Series offers enthusiast users the most compelling visual effects in 3D environments. The flexibility of this feature takes full advantage of the power of the Athlon processor to enhance effects such as procedural and animated bump mapping.

In addition, Matrox's unique DualHead Display revolutionizes the way people interact with their computers. By powering a dual-display environment, the Millennium G400 Series improves productivity and multitasking in a multiple windows environment. When paired with this unique feature, the Athlon processor provides performance levels benefiting the actual processing of multiple applications in such an environment. These applications include everything from Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Web browsers and email to the cutting-edge games that will support Matrox's DualHead Display.

"The AMD Athlon processor is bringing to market never-seen-before levels of performance and technical innovations," explains Steve Lapinsky, director of product marketing for AMD's Computation Products Group. "We look for complementary products as powerful and innovative as the Matrox Millennium G400 Series to deliver the performance and versatile graphics feature set that the demanding AMD Athlon processor user expects."

About the Matrox Millennium G400 Series The Matrox Millennium G400 Series converge industry-leading performance, unparalleled image quality and a cutting-edge feature set. Designed to satisfy the most demanding business and home users, these 2D, 3D, video, TV output and dual-display graphics cards feature Matrox's revolutionary DualHead Display technology, built-in support for Microsoft DirectX 6 Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping and Matrox's trademark Vibrant Color Quality2 (VCQ2) rendering. The Matrox Millennium G400 Series is also equipped with a 3D rendering engine that achieves amazingly fast single-pass multi-texturing with 32-bit rendering, 32-bit textures, 32-bit Z-buffer with 8-bit stencil, and full AGP texturing. Offering added value, each graphics card in this series bundles the Matrox Software DVD Player, MicroGrafx Simply 3D 3 and Picture Publisher 8, PointCast Network and a hot 3D game, Expendable from Rage Software, which showcases Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping. Based on the Matrox G400 chip, the Matrox Millennium G400 is fitted with a fixed 16 or 32 MB of high-bandwidth SGRAM, as well as a 300 MHz UltraSharp DAC for crisp, photorealistic displays. Based on the Matrox G400 MAX chip, the Matrox Millennium G400 MAX is fitted with a fixed 32 MB of SGRAM, features a 360 MHz UltraSharp DAC and benefits from a 30 per cent increase in raw speed over the Matrox Millennium G400.

About the AMD Athlon Processor Architecture The AMD Athlon processor is an x86-compatible, seventh-generation design featuring a superpipelined, nine-issue superscalar microarchitecture optimized for high clock frequency; the industry's first fully pipelined, superscalar floating point unit for x86 platforms; high-performance cache technology, including 128KB of on-chip level-one (L1) cache and a programmable, high-performance backside L2 cache interface; enhanced 3DNow!™ technology with 24 new instructions designed to improve integer math calculations, data movement for Internet streaming, and DSP communications; and the AMD Athlon system bus-a 200-MHz system interface based on the Alpha™ EV6 bus protocol with support for scalable multiprocessing. The initial versions of the AMD Athlon processor are manufactured on AMD's 0.25-micron process technology in Fab 25 in Austin, Texas.

About Matrox A Montreal-based graphics chip designer and board manufacturer with international offices in the U.S., Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Hong Kong, Matrox Graphics Inc. is a leader in the graphics industry. In 1993, Matrox was the first to introduce a 64-bit graphics engine for the PC market with its MGA series and the first to introduce high-quality video editing to the consumer market with its breakthrough Rainbow Runner series in 1997. Over the past five years, Matrox's innovative graphics and video technology has been recognised with an unprecedented 600 international awards. With 23 years of experience, Matrox continues to deliver leading-edge solutions to the graphics and video industry at the best price and performance level.

About AMD AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits for the personal and networked computer and communications markets. AMD produces microprocessors, flash memories and integrated circuits for communications and networking applications. Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD had revenues of $2.5 billion in 1998. (NYSE: AMD).

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