19 November 2014: Feature Articles

• ADEC is dead; long live ‘arei’
• IBM offloads foundering chip business
• Products of the Year
• Arduino takes 3D printing open-source; HP lurks

29 October 2014: Feature Articles

• DA lashes Cwele over digital TV migration
• Postal strike: Update
• Chequered flag falls on 2014 Sasol Solar Challenge
• Electrocomp holds successful seminar tour
• State-of-the-art lighting lab opens in Durban

8 October 2014: Feature Articles

• On a positive note (with a pinch of salt)
• Another material shows potential as successor to silicon
• Concurrent design cuts development cost and time
• New manufacturing industry studies released
• Cyber Junkyard 2014 focusing on real-world skills

17 September 2014: Feature Articles

• Counting the costs of Numsa’s strike
• Tellumat creates Grand Parade joint venture
• Chinese solar module maker opens R80m Cape Town plant
• Products, profits proliferate on powerful SoC platforms
• MEMS technology driving FPC connector miniaturisation

27 August 2014: Feature Articles

• Electronic engineering search engine, amplified
• Samsung to open TV plant in KZN’s Dube Tax Haven
• The role of electronics in university research
• Company profile: Multenet Technologies
• Latest African digital TV score is Rwanda: 1, RSA: 0

6 August 2014: Feature Articles

• Telecoms minister wants R1,59 billion
• Company profile: KM Product Design
• Sierra Wireless opens offices in SA
• Concilium supplies Cape university with new lab instruments

16 July 2014: Feature Articles

• ‘Proudly South African’ mobile devices going cheap, but at what cost?
• Where two worlds collide
• Innovation Hub launches community youth initiatives
• Local simulation software developer bought by US giant
• Sabertek gears up to take on the Chinese market

25 June 2014: Feature Articles

• SA has a new telecoms minister
• Ctrack chooses u-blox wireless modules
• Icasa says no plans for EHF
• Samsung to open plant in KZN?

4 June 2014: Feature Articles

• ZYTEQ Technologies: the new contract manufacturer on the block
• Avnet Kopp optimistic about local electronics industry
• Benchtop instrument evolution now in the hands of Generation Y
• Consolidation influences ranking of top 20 chip companies

14 May 2014: Feature Articles

• South African open innovation platform goes live
• Win a Microchip PICDEM PIC18 Explorer Board
• International design contest for engineers and students
• Enabling the connected world through NFC

23 April 2014: Feature Articles

• This year’s biggest expo was pretty good
• Indaba to focus on SA’s manufacturing sectors
• I think it’s the fresh machine oil that does it
• Cell C chooses Actum to install ESD flooring
• Company profile: Thata uBeke Manufacturing

2 April 2014: Feature Articles

• SA engineers invited to compete for new innovation award
• 3D printing: the next game changer
• Digital TV antenna designed and made in SA
• Altech UEC has made 20 million set-top boxes

12 March 2014: Feature Articles

• ECSA issues call to government and engineering community
• SA aims to be platinum member of fuel cell manufacturing industry
• Chinese giant taps SA PV module maker
• Company profile: Electrothing

19 February 2014: Feature Articles

• Conditional access débâcle causes frustration for STB manufacturing
• Industry initiative hits a brick wall
• National Electronics Week SA preview
• Upgraded credit rating for Denel
• MTN sponsors LTE towers for speed record attempt

29 January 2014: Feature Articles

• New dti campaign promotes locally made goods
• Innovative security system developed locally
• Poynting develops subterranean cellular base-station
• Company profile: Proactive Marketing Sales
• Inkjet printers can print electrical circuits, too