Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, AMD’s Lisa Su Join Tsinghua SEM Advisory Board

The advisory board is a soft-power channel, not a policy one, but the composition is telling: the two executives steering the West's AI chip supply chain are now formally tied to a Chinese academic institution at a moment when export controls define their commercial map. Their presence gives Tsinghua a direct line to the firms whose products sit at the center of US-China tech friction. Whether the appointments translate into anything beyond an annual Beijing meeting — or invite scrutiny in Washington — is the open question.