About this episode

The episode discusses Huawei's semiconductor announcement, VodafoneThree's headcount issues, and the EU's protectionist challenges.

This is your last pod for a few weeks as Scott is selfishly going on holiday, sorry. There’s no guest this week, which gives the lads the opportunity to dive a bit deeper into the news. They start by assessing the significance of a Huawei announcement that it has invented a new way of making semiconductors, which could have the broader significance of making China more resilient in its tech cold war with the US. They eventually move on to discuss falling headcount at VodafoneThree before concluding with a look at the EU’s protectionist dilemmas.

People in this episode

Host: Scott

Topics covered

• semiconductors
• tech cold war
• VodafoneThree
• EU protectionism
• Huawei announcement

Keywords

• Huawei
• VodafoneThree
• EU
• semiconductors
• tech cold war
• protectionism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Huawei, VodafoneThree, EU

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