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Women in Engineering and Innovation Summit
18 May 2016
Scheduled for 23 and 24 June, the Women in Engineering and Innovation Summit will take place in Johannesburg under the tagline “'The Way Forward…Beyond Challenges, Empowerment, Career Advancement, Sustainability, ...

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In memoriam: Jenny Warwick
18 May 2016
Jenny Warwick, founder of a prominent South African business-to-business publishing company and a highly respected industry figure, passed away on 2 June 2016 following a lengthy battle with illness. ...

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FPGA-based acceleration platform in the cloud
18 May 2016
Xilinx and IBM are teaming up to provide FPGA-based acceleration in the cloud, for developing demanding high-performance applications such as big data analytics and machine learning. Enabled by the Xilinx ...

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RS Components announces global distribution agreement with Intel
18 May 2016, RS South Africa
RS Components announced the signing of a global agreement with Intel for the distribution of a range of the company’s computing and embedded development products. The agreement enables customers worldwide ...

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Sasol to once again sponsor SA solar car challenge
20 April 2016
The 2016 iteration will once again see strong overseas entrants competing against local teams who are building more and more competitive vehicles.

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Laser breakthrough made by SA and Italian team
20 April 2016, Electronics Technology
Nature Photonics recently published research by a team from South Africa and Italy demonstrating a new type of laser that is able to produce laser beams ‘with a twist’ as its output.

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The state of electronic component distribution in SA
20 April 2016, Editor's Choice
With component distribution forming such a vital link in the supply chain, two of the biggest South African distributors share their insights on the health of the local market.

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NuVision scoops Digi-Key agency
20 April 2016, NuVision Electronics
NuVision Electronics has been appointed the official authorised reseller for Digi-Key products in southern Africa. The deal gives customers access to the entire Digi-Key portfolio of products through NuVision’s local offices.

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SKA gets R40 million boost
20 April 2016
A Square Kilometre Array South Africa (SKA SA)-led consortium has received 2 251 920 Euros (more than R40,3 million) from Horizon 2020, a European Union (EU) programme for research and innovation. The ...

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Wits physics school takes delivery of new oscilloscope
20 April 2016, Comtest
Wits University’s High Energy Physics (HEP) Group recently took delivery of a Tektronix MSO70804C, 8 GHz 25 GSps mixed signal oscilloscope, together with an 8 GHz Trimode differential probe, which will ...

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Forging ahead toward Industry 4.0
20 April 2016, EBV Electrolink
Network provider Cisco has predicted that in the year 2020, around 50 billion applications will be connected with the Internet of Things (IoT). One aspect of this IoT is known as Industry 4.0. But Industry ...

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Semiconductor unit shipments will soon top one trillion annually
20 April 2016
Total yearly semiconductor unit shipments (integrated circuits and opto-sensor-discrete, or O-S-D, devices) are forecast to continue their upward march and are now expected to top one trillion units for ...

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A giant leap for high-speed design
23 March 2016, Technews Publishing
What made this interview truly unique and exciting was the opportunity to shoot the breeze with one of the few people alive who worked on Apollo 11.

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DTI commits R15 million to study fuel cell market
23 March 2016
Minister Rob Davies asserted that the project, which is intended to accelerate mineral beneficiation and localisation of fuel cell manufacturing in South Africa, will go further than government had previously envisaged.

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CSIR collaborating on dynamic spectrum access research
23 March 2016
BITRI is interested in building its own Television White Spaces (TVWS) experimental network, and has requested the CSIR to assist with the design and deployment of Botswana’s TVWS network testbed.

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Locally made PV modules power REIPPP
23 March 2016, Editor's Choice
After winning this Q1 2015 bid, ARTsolar implemented an expansion programme to meet production requirements of this project.

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Manufacturers must look to digital initiatives
23 March 2016
Manufacturers will adopt technologies in the coming year that will allow them to transform their operating models and digitally connect processes, events, actions, internal associates and external partners.

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From the editor's desk: The democratisation of development
23 March 2016, Technews Publishing
I first learned (as I suspect most of us did) of Thomas Edison at some now-indeterminate stage of my school career. He is, of course, the father of the incandescent light bulb – one of more than 1000 ...

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Booyco continues development of pedestrian detection system
23 March 2016
Staying on top of the ever changing demands of industry, coupled with the pending changes to South African legislation, requires a dynamic approach when it comes to Pedestrian Detection Systems (PDS). ...

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P24 Interconnect invests in high-end design software
23 March 2016, P24 Interconnect
A thorough assessment of the needs of its current and prospective client base has resulted in P24 Interconnect investing in the VeSys Harness design software package from Mentor Graphics. According ...

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