Matrox TripleHead2Go now shipping

Montreal, Canada, May 25, 2006 – Matrox Graphics Inc., the leading manufacturer of graphics solutions for professionals, is pleased to announce that its award-winning new TripleHead2Go is now shipping worldwide and receiving widespread support from industry leaders, the press and top enthusiast system integrators. TripleHead2Go is a palm-sized box that uniquely allows you to add three monitors to your workstation, gaming system or laptop, delivering incredible productivity boosts to office work, Surround Design to workstation environments for professionals and an immersive Surround Gaming experience to enthusiasts.

First demonstrated publicly at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco in March, TripleHead2Go won not only the Intel Technology Innovation Acceleration Award (TIAA) in the Digital Home category, but also took away the highly coveted “Best of Show” award.

The press has also been raving about the new TripleHead2Go. With already 4 awards to date, acclaim from industry leaders has been continuous:

“It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a product with so much “wow!” factor, and it’s been even longer since we’ve seen a product with “wow!” factor that retains long-term benefits. Whether you’re a video producer, photographer, or you just want to straight-up get your game on, Matrox definitely has a winner with the TripleHead2Go.” (www.neoseeker.com)

The excitement level has especially been palpable in the gaming community. Several game developers have worked with Matrox to make necessary adjustments to their games to ensure compatibility with TripleHead2Go. Such popular titles as World of Warcraft™ by Blizzard Entertainment, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast™ by Sierra and Valve, and Unreal Tournament 2004™ by Epic Games have recently been added to the list, bringing the total number of supported titles to over 135.

Matrox is committed to growing the list of supported titles and will be making updates available on the web. The Matrox Surround Gaming Utility, a simple software application bundled with TripleHead2Go that automatically updates game configuration files to have proper settings enabled for TripleHead resolutions, now has over 135 supported titles. Users may download the latest version at www.matrox.com/graphics/offhome/th2go/gaming/home.cfm Matrox Surround Gaming

After testing the product first-hand, many top system integrators are incorporating TripleHead2Go in their turnkey solutions, avid to offer Surround Gaming to their clients and convinced it is going to be the new standard for bragging rights.

“For years serious gamers have turned to Polywell Computers for our award-winning, high-end gaming systems that always incorporate the highest quality components and newest technologies,” says Sam Chu, Founder, Polywell Computers Inc. (www.polywell.com)”The new Matrox TripleHead2Go is the perfect complement to our systems, and we have no doubt our customers will be as impressed as we are with how much fun it adds to the gaming experience.”

“Surround graphics will take PC gaming to a whole new level. We’re confident that the gaming market will benefit from being able to harness the full potential of their graphics horsepower”, says Wallace Santos, founder of Maingear (www.maingear.com).

“TripleHead2Go rocks! Once you try Surround Gaming on a Hypersonic PC you’ll never go back” says Eyal Akler, Chief Executive Officer of Hypersonic PC (www.hypersonic-pc.com).

“WidowPC leads the way in pushing gaming laptops for better audio and video performance. Believe me when I say TripleHead2Go is the best thing to hit gaming since surround sound. It’s truly addicting!” says Joshua McClure, founder of WidowPC (www.widowpc.com).

“Monarch computers is committed to being the leader in innovative hardware solutions for the gaming community,” says Trey Harris, founder of Monarch Computers (www.monarchcomputer.com), “The Matrox TripleHead2Go is exactly the kind of kick-ass innovative product we know that our user community will demand with their systems.”

“Since 1990, ABS has been dedicated to the ideal of making the finest PC Gaming solutions in the world, incorporating revolutionary computer components such as the new Matrox TripleHead2Go Graphics eXpansion Module. This highly innovative technology allows the gamer to be immersed in the “Surround Gaming Experience” and opens new possibilities for current and next generation gaming,” says Albert Wang, Head of ABS (http://www.abs.com/press/triplehead2go.asp?CMP=OTC-triple)

“The innovation that the Matrox TripleHead2Go product brings to consumers brings on a new era of gaming experience and raises the notion of multi-tasking to a new level of increased productivity. These are 2 key critical elements that our customers seek to compliment our Shuttle XPC Desktop Computers,” says Kevin Tu, Product Marketing Manager of Shuttle Computers for Northern America (www.shuttle.com).

Price and Availability

Matrox TripleHead2Go is now shipping worldwide through authorized system integrators and resellers, or, in North America and Europe, directly from Matrox at http://shopmatrox.com. For more information please visit www.triplehead2go.com, call Matrox Sales at 1-800-361-1408 (North America) or e-mail [email protected]. TripleHead2Go has a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $299USD.