Intergraph Corp, Huntsville, Alabama has two new mid-range workstations using its new C400 version of its Clipper RISC, the InterPro 6450 at $25,000 up and the 6480 at from $38,000 (CI No 1,802). They were launched at the AutoFACT show in Detroit earlier this month, and are rated at 33 SPECmarks, 9 MFLOPS and come with from 16Mb to 326Mb memory and a choice of 19 or 27 screens. Running Intergraph’s version of Unix System V.3.2, they will be formally announced in March as part of a much broader series of C400 machines. Both low-end and higher-performance workstations are expected to come in below and above the 6400 family. The CAD/CAM specialist, which these days concentrates on specific market sectors, like high-end graphics, engineering, manufacturing and the auto industry, does not attend the high-profile Unix shows, but still commands large volume workstation sales. It also announced a new Version 2 of its Intergraph Engineering Modelling System, EMS, mechanical engineering software with new variational and parametric modelling functions, which runs on the Sparcstation 2s that its Dazix software subsidiary markets, as well as on the InterPros. It costs $20,000 and will be out in March. And the company announced that it is to implement Advanced CAE Technology Inc’s AC Technology C-Flow injection-mould simulation software on to its workstations, which will be integrated with its Engineering Modelling System, and has released I/Warp plastic warping analysis software, which combines Moldflow Pty Ltd’s MF/Warp application, also for the EMS.
