Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Joins Prestigious Chinese Advisory Board
- On Wednesday, the Financial Times reported that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang accepted an invitation to join the advisory board of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, following his recent trip to China with President Donald Trump.
- Chaired by Apple CEO Tim Cook, the Tsinghua board serves as a long-standing communication channel between Beijing and global tech leaders, including members like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jamie Dimon.
- This appointment occurs as Nvidia faces ongoing United States export restrictions on advanced GPUs that have effectively blocked the company's most sophisticated chips from the Chinese market since 2022.
- Huang has publicly argued that ceding the Chinese market to Huawei Technologies is a strategic error, claiming Chinese AI labs running on Huawei silicon would be a "horrible outcome" for the United States.
- Republican China hawks in Congress have already grumbled about the Nvidia chief executive's Beijing footprint, though whether this board seat draws formal hearings remains uncertain.
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Nvidia CEO to join board of elite Chinese university
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is set to join the advisory board of an elite Chinese university, which counts Tim Cook, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg among its 65 members, the Financial Times reported. The board at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, which also includes the heads of JPMorgan and BlackRock, is a rare forum uniting corporate and academic leaders from the US and China. The participation of Huang — who accompanied …
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang joins advisory board of China’s prestigious Tsinghua University: report
Outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook serves as chairman of the advisory board, members of which also include SpaceX boss Elon Musk, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon.
With the decision to be part of the Board of a Chinese university, the managing director of the superpower of semiconductors tries to maintain good relations with the country that does not give the "ok" to the purchase of chips even if there has been the green light of Trump
Jensen Huang joins the Tsinghua University advisory board chaired by Tim Cook
The Nvidia CEO accepts a seat on Tsinghua’s School of Economics and Management board alongside Musk, Dell, Nadella, Zuckerberg, Dimon and Fink, days after travelling to China with Trump. Jensen Huang has accepted an invitation to join the advisory board of Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management, according to a Financial Times report. The […] This story continues at The Next Web
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