Siemens Industry Automation Division is launching a new generation of its high-end
industrial PC family Simatic IPC for hostile industrial environments. The new devices
of the D generation support the power multi-core processor types Intel Xeon and
Intel Core i3 to Core i7 of the fourth generation. They are the first box, rack, and
panel industrial PCs of that type on the market. The D devices have 60 to 180 per-
cent higher CPU power than the predecessor models of the C generation. The HD
on-board graphics integrated into the CPU with dynamic frequency now achieves
three times higher graphics performance.