SEVENTY per cent of the 173 deaths due to the Black Saturday bushfires were caused by the failure of electricity assets, the Bushfires Royal Commission has been told.
Tim Tobin, SC, a lawyer representing 1100 people and businesses involved in class actions against power companies, aired the deaths figure while cross-examining a senior officer from the CFA, Steve Warrington.
Mr Tobin asked Mr Warrington what the CFA had done before February 7 to guard against power asset failures, saying that electricity assets had caused major fatal fires at other times in Victoria, …

NASHUA, N.H., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ — PennWell’s Electronics Media Group is
announcing the launch of a new portal website, www.ElectroIQ.com. The new
site, focused on electronics and electronics manufacturing, provides a gateway
to the content of five different PennWell brands: Solid State Technology,
Photovoltaics World, Advanced Packaging, Small Times and SMT. Each brand
powers one of the five sections of the new site: semiconductors,
photovoltaics, packaging, nanotech/MEMS, and surface mount technology,
respectively.
Users can easily navigate through these branded sections and associated topic
centers to find a wide variety of content, including technical articles,
industry news, product updates, videos, white …

Gigabyte has launched eleven new motherboards based on Intel P55 Express chipset. Gigabyte’s new P55 Chipset motherboards have LGA Socket 1156 to support latest Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors. Build on the much touted Ultra Durable 3 design that adds 2oz copper Printer Circuit Board, Gigabyte boasts of industry’s first 24-phase Voltage Regulator Module design.
Gigabyte P55 chipset motherboards are ready to be used with the freshly announced Intel Core i5 750 and Core i7 860 as well as 870 processors. These new Lynnfield CPUs have memory controllers integrated …

Excellent Lead Free Solderability, Wire Bond and RF Performance
LITTAU, Switzerland–(Business Wire)–
Dow Electronic Materials (NYSE:DOW) introduces Silveron MF 100 autocatalytic
silver and Aurolectroless SMT immersion gold for ASIG (autocatalytic silver
immersion gold) final finish process for the PCB (printed circuit board)
industry. The company has signed an agreement with Polymer Kompositer AB to
become the global distributor for the ASIG final finish process, excluding UK
and Nordic countries. Silveron MF 100 autocatalytic silver and Aurolectroless
SMT immersion gold offer board fabricators, assemblers and OEMs improvements in
solderability, shelf life, wire bonding and reliability due to the unique,
dense, pore …

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