Laura Loomer, a far-right political activist, has raised concerns over NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang‘s access to the White House due to his connections with a Chinese university.
Loomer took to X late Wednesday to say that she has sent an exclusive report to the White House and the Department of War expressing concern over Huang having access to the White House as a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) while also being a part of a Chinese university’s board, which Loomer referred to as “CCP University.”
She stated, “A senior Department of War official replied to me immediately and told me they are looking into this. This is a massive scandal!!!! And they agreed with me.”
Huang To Join Tsinghua Advisory Board
The Nvidia CEO has reportedly accepted an invitation to join the advisory board of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, one of China’s most prestigious universities. This move has yet to be formally announced.
Tsinghua University is a public university under China's Ministry of Education, and like all major Chinese universities, it has a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee embedded in its governance structure.
Notably, the board also includes leading U.S. tech leaders like Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Tim Cook, Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) founder Michael Dell, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella and Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg, many of whom are also part of the White House PCAST.
China Remains Key Market
Huang, meanwhile, has previously acknowledged that NVIDIA has “largely conceded” the Chinese AI chip market due to export controls. He stated that “Huawei is very, very strong” and that the demand in China is quite large.
That being said, the CEO called China a ‘very important‘ and "very large" market after the U.S. allowed the sale of its H200 chips to 10 Chinese customers. He emphasized that China is also a market for its projected $200 billion CPU market.
Besides China, Huang is betting big on the “booming” Taiwan chip market. On Wednesday, he announced Nvidia’s plans to invest about $150 billion annually in the nation, calling it the "epicentre" of the AI revolution.
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