Further reading:

• Electronics news digest
  26 June 2019, News
  South Africa • South Africa is looking to take on a leading role in the international space weather monitoring community. Space weather events are capable of seriously disrupting modern technologies ...
  
• Clearing the static: ESD testing and monitoring – Part 2
  26 June 2019, Altico Static Control Products, News
  Once you’ve identified an ESD protected area (EPA) and the combination of ESD (electrostatic discharge) control products your facility requires, continuous testing and monitoring need to be conducted. ...
  
• AI on a chip
  26 June 2019, News
  Researchers have created a machine learning library programmed in C that can run on microcontrollers, and on other platforms such as PCs, Raspberry PI and Android.
  
• From the editor’s desk: Local developments using solar power
  26 June 2019, Technews Publishing, News
  It’s always great to see local developers doing good work, and Dataweek always enjoys getting a chance to feature them. Sadly, people seldom share with us the interesting things they’re working on, whether ...
  
• CSIR pushes to localise technologies
  26 June 2019, News
  The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has pledged to work closely with the private sector and innovation partners in developing and localising technologies to support the advancement ...
  
• SIMCom product seminar to be held next week
  26 June 2019, Otto Wireless, News
  Otto Wireless Solutions, in conjunction with SIMCom, will be hosting an informative half-day seminar at Riversands, Fourways on 10 July 2019. In addition to a brief product presentation by Otto Wireless ...
  
• Demand for local products highlighted at LME expo
  26 June 2019, News
  The Local Southern African Manufacturing Expo (LME), held in Johannesburg in late May, managed to draw a respectable 3473 visitors in its first ever outing. “The Expo was the culmination of a vision that ...
  
• Test Dynamics LabVIEW roadshows
  26 June 2019, News
  Test Dynamics is holding a series of roadshows in September and October to share the latest developments in LabVIEW 2019. The half-day training/information sessions will discuss the technologies that ...
  
• Young CSIR scientists urge youth to seize 4IR
  26 June 2019, News
  Researchers at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) are at the forefront of cutting-edge research related to fourth industrial revolution (4IR) technologies aimed at improving the ...
  
• Electronics news digest
  29 May 2019, News
  South Africa • South Africa will soon join the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network (C4IR Network) alongside China, India and Japan by launching an affiliate ...
  
• Clearing the static: ESD testing and monitoring - Part 1
  29 May 2019, Altico Static Control Products, News
  Static energy is an unseen threat, and the only way of knowing how to control it is by testing. Depending on your industry and application, there will be specific resistivity requirements that will govern ...
  
• From the editor’s desk: US-China trade war hits chip makers
  29 May 2019, Technews Publishing, News
  The escalating trade war between the US and China has the global economy on high alert, and unless things normalise soon it is going to have massive ramifications on many industries. Following US president ...