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From the editor's desk: This phablet is the hottest thing around – and it has GPS!
22 February 2017, Technews Publishing
How easy it is to take technology for granted. Perhaps the most fitting testament to the dependability of modern electronics is that, after the honeymoon period of getting to know the latest gadget that ...

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RS enhances its PCB component models
22 February 2017, RS South Africa
RS Components has extended its relationship with SamacSys, the world’s leading supplier of high-quality PCB schematic symbols and footprints. RS is now offering direct access to schematic symbols and ...

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Win a Bluetooth audio evaluation board
22 February 2017
Dataweek readers are offered the chance of winning a Microchip BM64 Bluetooth Audio Evaluation Board (BM-64-EVB-C2). This board enables easy development with Microchip’s new IS206X family of SoC devices ...

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SEGGER signs with RS Components
22 February 2017, RS South Africa
RS Components announced the signing of a global distribution agreement with SEGGER Microcontroller, a leading supplier of development and debug tools, production programmers, real-time operating systems ...

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Poynting helps bring KZN school online
22 February 2017, Inteto Connect
Poynting Direct has supplied Thembelihle Primary School in KZN with a host of equipment to help its students gain easy access to online information. According to Frank Vermeulen, the company’s general ...

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Antennas for radio telescopes course launched at Stellenbosch University
22 February 2017
In November 2016, seven industry leaders and 19 students from Europe and South Africa participated in a newly developed ‘Antennas for Radio Telescopes’ course at Stellenbosch University. The course is ...

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Electronics news digest
22 February 2017
South Africa • Overall revenue from the Reunert Group’s continuing operations increased by 3% to R8,5 billion for the year ended 28 September 2016. This was underpinned by significant growth of 39% in ...

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Wits researchers make breakthrough in quantum electronics
31 January 2017, Editor's Choice, Electronics Technology
The group, headed by Professor Somnath Bhattacharyya, has been working for the past 10 years on developing carbon-based nanoelectronic devices.

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SA student supercomputing team selected
31 January 2017
The team was selected from 10 teams from various universities in South Africa, who battled it out to demonstrate their cluster building and high-performance computing skills.

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Huge investment in Altron, management shake-up on the cards
31 January 2017
The proposed investment will kickstart Altron’s stated intention to move from a family controlled and managed business to independent management.

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Norway chooses South African antennas for rescue services
31 January 2017, Inteto Connect
The result is access to unique weather patterns and live pictures in time for Norwegian air ambulance services to save lives.

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From the editor's desk: More of the same, but hopefully better
31 January 2017, Technews Publishing
I don’t often say this at the start of a new year, but if 2017 carries on more or less where 2016 left off, it wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing. Last year wasn’t perfect for the local electronics sector ...

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FTDI spins out MCU, HMI divisions
31 January 2017, Electrocomp
In order to better serve the broadening range of markets it has developed products for, FTDI Chip has established a new distinct company, Bridgetek. Presenting the embedded engineering sector with a ...

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EEMBC working on benchmarks for IoT
31 January 2017, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT
EEMBC, the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, is developing new benchmarks for the Internet of Things (IoT) industry. The first benchmark, intended to ensure optimum efficiency of security ...

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Appcon Wireless appoints Otto Wireless Solutions
31 January 2017, Otto Wireless Solutions, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT
Appcon Wireless Technology, a global provider of wireless RF modules and radio data modems for ISM band at sub-GHz frequencies, has appointed Otto Wireless Solutions as its distributor sub Saharan Africa. ...

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IoT to boost short-range wireless connectivity options
31 January 2017, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT
The market for short-range wireless connectivity – including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 802.15.4 and NFC – continues to evolve and expand its use cases in order to meet new IoT (Internet of Things) market requirements. ...

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Former Atmel products added to Microchip’s online store
31 January 2017
Following Microchip Technology’s recent takeover of Atmel, all former Atmel products are now available on microchipDIRECT, Microchip’s full service channel. For the first time, customers can purchase ...

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UJ looks to Finland to encourage local tech startups
22 February 2017, Editor's Choice
Speaking at a ceremony at UJ’s Auckland Park campus on 31 January, vice-chancellor Prof Ihron Rensburg explained: “We want to see our students and other young people start businesses valuable to the economy. ...

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How graphene is made
31 January 2017, Multimedia, Videos
This video from the Science Channel shows the amazing processes that must be performed to create the equally amazing material graphene, which is touted as the leading contender to supersede silicon as ...

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Local procurement must be prioritised by both public and private sectors
EMP 2017 Electronics Manufacturing & Production Handbook, Editor's Choice
To ensure that our economy is capable of producing affordable quality goods for local consumption and export, it is necessary to drive home the Local Procurement Accord.

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