The world's largest 'smart transformer' just went online, according to China

Smart transformers are designed to help better manage power for cities, and the largest smart transformer in the world apparently just went online.
T&D

Nation’s Largest Phase-Shifting Transformer Takes Up Residence in Monticello

Rocky Mountain Power’s Pinto substation outside Monticello just became home to the largest phase-shifting power transformer in the United States – the second largest in the world. Once fully assembled ...
Power Engineering

Areva delivers world’s largest furnace transformers and reactors

2 May 2006 – The world’s largest electric arc furnace transformers and reactors have just been delivered by Areva T&D to a customer in Turkey. Areva’s manufacturing plant in Gebze, Turkey, delivered ...
VentureBeat

Microsoft trains world's largest Transformer language model

Microsoft AI & Research today shared what it calls the largest Transformer-based language generation model ever and open-sourced a deep learning library named DeepSpeed to make distributed training of ...
NewsBytes

China's transformer exports hit record high: Here we decode why

China's transformer exports hit a record value of $9.3 billion in 2021, marking a 36% increase from the previous year due to ...
Yahoo

Unicron, the biggest and most expensive Transformers toy ever, smashes all expectations

With a height of 71 cm and a girth of 83 cm, Unicron is the biggest transforming Transformer ever to hit the homes of collectors — and he's got all the bells and whistles that you'd expect. He ...
T&D

Siemens Builds the World’s Largest Cast-Resin Transformer

With its Geafol cast-resin transformers, Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD) is increasingly developing into a specialist for high power ratings in the medium voltage range. By the end ...
E&E

Transformer shortage hits utilities in storm season

With an eye out for 2022 hurricanes, electric utilities are finding roadblocks as they try to secure spare grid equipment. As the peak time for U.S. hurricanes arrives, utilities along the nation’s ...
Neowin

NVIDIA registers the world's quickest BERT training time and largest transformer-based model

NVIDIA Corporation, the behemoth in the world of graphics processing units (GPUs), announced today that it had clocked the world's fastest training time for BERT-Large at 53 minutes and also trained ...
MarketWatch

Virginia Transformer to Expand Georgia Transformer Plant in Rincon, Ga., To Further Bolster #1 Position in the Industry and Shortest Lead Times

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. ROANOKE, Va., Nov. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Virginia Transformer today announced it will expand its Rincon, Georgia ...
VentureBeat

Nvidia trains world’s largest Transformer-based language model

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Nvidia today announced that it has trained the world’s largest language ...