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Army

General Dynamics Brings New Commercial Computing Capabilities To Military Vehicles

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

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General Dynamics [GD] Canada yesterday said it has introduced the new ultra-rugged SD8000 family of smart display products with the quad-core 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processor, bringing the latest in commercial computing to military vehicles. The new smart displays meet the computing-intense requirements of the battlefield while conserving size, weight and power inside military vehicles, the company said in a statement. “Quad-core processing effectively doubles the computing capabilities of previous dual-core smart displays,” said David Ibbetson, general manager, General Dynamics…

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