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  • Fingrid deploys Gridraven DLR solution across transmission grid

    Image courtesy 123rf Energy tech company Gridraven has won a public tender by Finnish TSO Fingrid to deploy dynamic line rating (DLR) across the country’s high-voltage transmission network. The contract covers five 400 kV lines totalling 700km and has an option to expand toward national coverage of 5500km by the end of 2025. The project…


  • Jason Rogers from MG Chemicals at IPC APEX 2025

    Justin Worden from What’s New in Electronics TV talks to Jason Rogers from MG Chemicals at IPC APEX 2025 in Anaheim, USA. [embedded content] WNIE TV is kindly sponsored by Axxon Mycronic, BTU, Kyzen, Kurtz Ersa, Koh Young Technology, Nordson Test & Inspection, Viscom, EVS, Indium, ROKA Solutions, ART, and Saki.


  • Datest Receives Its 16th AS9100D Recertification Audit – Still Sharp, Still Soaring

    Datest, a trusted leader in advanced testing, engineering, inspection, and failure analysis services, proudly announces sixteen straight years of aerospace-grade perfection. Cue the confetti cannons (ESD-safe, of course). If quality were a sport, they would be undefeated. Datest continues to meet the rigorous standards of the aerospace, defense, and space sectors with precision, professionalism, and…


  • DigiKey Receives Top Accolades from Suppliers at the 2025 EDS Leadership Summit

    DigiKey, a leading global commerce distributor offering the largest selection of technical components and automation products in stock for immediate shipment, was honored to receive 16 awards from its supplier partners during the 2025 EDS Leadership Summit, held May 19-23, in Las Vegas. DigiKey earned 16 awards from its suppliers during the 2025 EDS Leadership…


  • Access to power biggest challenge for Europe’s data centres

    Image: 123RF Access to power is considered the biggest challenge for data centre operators over the next three years, the European Data Centre Association (EUDCA) has found. In its ‘State of European data centres 2025’ report, the association finds that, along with power constraints, other key challenges are regulatory compliance, particularly adhering to EU and…


  • Indium Corporation Joins Virginia Tech Center for Power Electronics Systems Industry Consortium

    Indium Corporation®, a leading materials refiner, smelter, manufacturer, and supplier to the global electronics, semiconductor, thin-film, and thermal management markets, has joined Virginia Tech’s Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES), an industry consortium that supports power electronics initiatives to reduce energy use while growing capability. CPES is dedicated to improving electrical power processing and distribution that…


  • Sarcina Technology advances photonic package design to address key data center challenges

    Sarcina Technology, a specialist in semiconductor and photonic package design, has announced advances in its photonic package design capabilities for Co-Packaged Optics (CPO), which address fundamental challenges facing data centers about how to deal with the rapidly increasing amount of data as AI evolves. Sarcina’s pioneering work in photonic package design is enabling a new era…


  • Axiom Electronics Enhances Efficiency, Traceability with Optel Software Implementation

    Optel Software Inc., a global provider of smart software solutions for the electronics assembly industry, announces that Axiom Electronics has deployed Optel software’s dynamic production scheduling, component, process, and quality traceability and business intelligence solutions at its plant in Hillsboro, Oregon. For more than three decades, Axiom Electronics has been an electronics contract manufacturer specializing…


  • E.ON partners on local power generation solutions for data centres

    Image: CyrusOne E.ON has entered into a ‘preferred partnership’ with Texas-based CyrusOne to develop solutions to overcome data centres grid capacity constraints in Europe. The focus of the partnership is on unlocking future energy projects in Frankfurt – Europe’s largest data centre hub, which is currently constrained by limited grid capacity and connection delays –…


  • DTEK closes loan agreement for 180MW battery storage projects

    Image courtesy DTEK Ukrainian energy company DTEK has reached a loan agreement with a consortium of Ukrainian banks for five energy storage installations totalling 180MW. Oschadbank, along with PUMB and Ukrgasbank (UGB), are providing around €67 million ($76.3 million). Led by Oschadbank, DTEK says in a release that the loan in the largest financing yet…