Chinese media highlighted that all the heads of the top four semiconductor corporations in the U.S. are of Chinese descent.
On the 14th, local Chinese media, including Kuaichuan Banru Bao, reported that "the CEOs of the top four semiconductor manufacturers in the U.S., Intel, NVIDIA, AMD, and Broadcom, are all of Chinese descent."
Ripu Tan, who will officially take office as CEO of Intel on the 18th, was born into a Chinese family in Malaysia and grew up in Singapore. After majoring in physics at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, he moved to the U.S. in 1978 and obtained a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, a leader in AI chips, is an American of Taiwanese descent. After obtaining a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in the U.S., CEO Huang founded NVIDIA in 1993 upon recognizing the potential in the field of computer graphics.
In January of this year, unlike other heads of U.S. big tech corporations who attended the inauguration of President Donald Trump, he did not attend the ceremony and instead visited Beijing, Shanghai, Taiwan, and other locations, participating in company events related to the Lunar New Year.
Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, which has emerged as a competitor to NVIDIA, is also from the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan, like Jensen Huang. She moved to the U.S. with her family at the age of three and graduated from MIT. Su joined AMD in 2012 and was appointed CEO two years later in 2014, maintaining her position for over 10 years.
Emerging as another contender for NVIDIA's position last year, Hock Tan, CEO of Broadcom, is also an American of Chinese descent born in Malaysia, just like Intel's Tan.
Amidst this, recent reports indicated that TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor foundry corporation, suggested a joint investment in Intel to major U.S. firms such as NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, and Qualcomm, drawing global interest in the direction of the semiconductor industry filled with Chinese heads.