The CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has agreed to join the board of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, a prestigious Chinese university that sees Tim Cook di Apple as president. Two sources report this. Financial TimesTsinghua, headquartered in Beijing, is the China's leading university specializing in science and engineering and counts the Chinese president among its former students Xi JinpingIt is the analogue of the University Harvard in the West. Among the stated goals of the SEM board are helping the business school strengthen its international ties and defining a long-term strategy.
Nvidia CEO Huang's move in China
In addition to Cook, the board includes US tech magnates such as Elon Musk, Michael Dell, Satya Nadella di ecosystem e Mark Zuckerberg di Meta, as well as financial sector executives such as Jamie Dimon di JPMorgan, Larry Fink di BlackRock e Jane fraser di Citigroup.
But what does Huang's choice suggest? Huang's move, which has not yet been formally announced, suggests that he wants to keep the ties to Chinese academic and business circles despite Nvidia's advanced chips remaining banned in the countryThe world's largest chipmaker, in fact, has been largely excluded from China since last April, when the United States banned the export of its China-specific chip, theH20, made to comply with previous export regulations.
Nvidia's chips are still banned in China.
At the beginning of this year, Washington has approved limited sales of Nvidia's H200 chips., more powerful, to select Chinese customers, but Beijing has restricted imports to protect its domestic semiconductor industry.
Huang said last week that U.S. export controls have caused Nvidia to “largely cede” the Chinese market to domestic competitors such as Huawei, even as the chipmaker posted positive quarterly results. Although China once accounted for a fifth of Nvidia's global revenue, Huang told investors to "not expect anything" regarding approvals for the sale of advanced chips there in the near term.
