CEOs of Nvidia and AMD join Tsinghua University advisory board in China as US-China chip export control tensions escalate.

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang and AMD chief Lisa Su have joined the advisory board of Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management, positioning two prominent American AI technology leaders in an influential forum that connects global executives with senior Chinese officials. They were appointed alongside Marc Pictet, senior managing partner of the Swiss wealth and assets manager Pictet Group, according to an announcement on the school's official social media channel on Tuesday.

In describing the appointees, Tsinghua highlighted Huang as Nvidia's founder and the leader of a company that "invented graphic processing units" and "ushered in the modern AI era." Su's tenure at AMD was credited with transforming the company into "a leading high-performance and adaptive computing firm."

The appointment follows both executives' attendance at a White House state dinner during Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent state visit to Washington.