Latest Technology News In South Africa
Lite-On Technology was founded in Taiwan in 1975 and became one of the country’s early manufacturers of light-emitting diode products. The company expanded from optoelectronics into power supplies and electronic components as Taiwan’s computer industry grew.
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Wolters Kluwer’s roots reach back to Dutch publishing houses founded in the nineteenth century. The modern group was created in 1987 through the merger of Kluwer Publishers and Wolters-Samson. The company specialised in professional information for legal, tax, healthcare and business users.
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SiTime began operations in 2005 with the goal of replacing quartz timing components with silicon-based MEMS technology. The company combined microscopic mechanical resonators with analogue electronics to create programmable oscillators and clocks.
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IonQ was founded in 2015 by physicists Christopher Monroe and Jungsang Kim to commercialise trapped-ion quantum computing developed through university research. The company’s approach uses individual ions as qubits, manipulated with lasers and held in electromagnetic traps.
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Dheeraj Pandey, Mohit Aron and Ajeet Singh founded Nutanix in 2009 after working in large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems. They set out to combine computing and storage in clusters of standard servers, reducing dependence on separate storage-area-network appliances.
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Leidos’ corporate roots lie in Science Applications International Corporation, founded in 1969 by physicist J. Robert Beyster as an employee-owned scientific and engineering services company. SAIC worked heavily with US government customers across defence, intelligence, science and technology.
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Onto Innovation was created in October 2019 through the merger of equals between semiconductor process-control companies Nanometrics and Rudolph Technologies. The combination brought together metrology, inspection, lithography and software used from wafer fabrication through advanced packaging.
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Advantech was established in Taiwan in the early 1980s by K.C. Liu and partners, formally beginning operations in 1983. The company initially developed computer modules and measurement-automation systems for industrial customers rather than general consumer PCs.
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Naver was founded in South Korea in 1999 by former Samsung SDS employees led by Lee Hae-jin. The company developed a Korean-language search and portal service tailored to local internet users.
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Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville founded Circle in 2013 as a digital-currency company focused on making blockchain-based money easier to use. The company experimented with consumer payments and Bitcoin before shifting more heavily towards regulated infrastructure for digital dollars.
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