Ifølge vr-zone er matrox vågnet fra dybet og introducerer snart en ny grafikchip med navnet Parhelia 512. Dette er officielle specifikationer og ikke rygter! Her er en lille liste:
Up to 350 MHz clock
0.15 micron process
80 Million Transistors
Up to 20 GB/sec memory bandwidth
256-bit memory interface
Up to 256MB of max memory
Up to 1.4GB/s Fillrate and
AGP2x/4x/8x with SBA and Fastwrites
4 Pipelines
4 Texture blocks per pipeline
Triple Ultra Sharp-II 400 MHz RAMDAC
Resolution up to 2048x1536x32bpp at 85Mhz
Vertex 2.0 Spec
Pixel Shader 1.3 Spec
EMBM & DOT3
DX9 N-Patches
Displacement Mapping
4 Vertex Shader's
16x Adaptive Antialiasing
Surround Gaming Support
TV-Out, DVD/HDTV Decoder
Full support of DirectX 8.1, OpenGL 1.3 and DirectX 9
Highend card will cost ~ $500
Released end of Summer