Latest Technology News In South Africa
Aart de Geus co-founded Synopsys in 1986 after developing ideas for automated logic synthesis while working at General Electric. The company’s breakthrough was software that could translate a higher-level description of digital logic into a gate-level implementation, reducing the amount of manual design work required as chips became more complex.
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Forrest Li founded the company that became Sea Limited in 2009 in Singapore, initially building Garena as a digital-entertainment and online-game platform. Garena distributed and operated online games across Southeast Asia, giving the company an early digital user base in a region where mobile internet adoption was accelerating.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise was created on 1 November 2015 when Hewlett-Packard separated its enterprise technology operations from the personal-computer and printer business that became HP Inc. HPE inherited servers, storage, networking, services and other enterprise assets from a corporate lineage that stretched back to Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard’s 1939 garage partnership.
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Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt met at Stanford, later moved to New York and built trading technology for financial institutions before founding Robinhood in 2013. Their core proposition was commission-free stock trading through a mobile-first interface aimed at people who had been poorly served by traditional brokerage products.
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Brothers Jason Chang and Richard Chang established Advanced Semiconductor Engineering in 1984 and opened the company’s first factory in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. ASE focused on semiconductor assembly and packaging, the stage that protects a fabricated die, connects it electrically and prepares it for use in an electronic system.
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TE Connectivity’s roots include AMP Incorporated, founded in 1941 by brothers U.A. Whitaker and J. Allen Whitaker to develop solderless electrical connections. AMP’s crimp-style terminals and connectors simplified reliable electrical connections in mass-produced equipment.
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Nokia traces its roots to 1865, when mining engineer Fredrik Idestam established a pulp mill in Finland. The Nokia name came from a second mill built near the Nokianvirta river. Through mergers, the business eventually combined paper, rubber, cable and electronics activities long before telecommunications became its defining market.
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John Warnock and Charles Geschke founded Adobe in 1982 to rethink digital printing. PostScript, Illustrator, Photoshop, PDF, Creative Cloud and Firefly repeatedly moved the company into new layers of creative and document software.
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Ding Lei founded NetEase in Guangzhou in 1997 during the early commercial expansion of the Chinese internet. The company first became known through internet services including email, portals and community products before online games became a major growth engine.
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Equinix was founded in 1998 by Jay Adelson and Al Avery, who recognised that rapidly growing internet networks needed neutral facilities where carriers, content companies and service providers could connect directly. The company called those facilities International Business Exchange, or IBX, data centres and built its first sites around dense network interconnection rather than simple server floor space.
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