With Intel’s new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, the top four US tech firms are now led by people of Chinese descent, which shows the nation’s growing importance in the global supply chain.
Intel, AMD, NVIDIA & Broadcom Are Now Led By Chinese Descent CEOs; All The Talent Starts Popping Up From China
Well, this certainly wasn’t expected, but here we are. Firms like Intel, NVIDIA, AMD, and Broadcom have dominated the global tech market in the past few years, and the one common thing about these firms is that their CEOs have their family heritage linked with China, starting from the likes of NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang, all the way to Broadcom’s CEO Hock Tan. In an insight by BusinessKorea, it is claimed that CEOs of Chinese descent could be a variable in the “US-China” competition for global supremacy.
Starting off with Intel, the newly appointed CEO Lip-Bu Tan is said to have been born into a Chinese family in Malaysia and has led his previous firm, Cadence Systems, into the Chinese industry. According to a Chinese media outlet, Lip-Bu Tan will play a key factor in Intel’s presence in China’s tech market, since he knows the “Chinese semiconductor markets best.” Team Blue hasn’t managed to capitalize on the AI demand coming from the region early on, allowing competitors like NVIDIA to monopolize the market,
Similarly, NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang and AMD’s CEO Lisa Su are both of Chinese descent but spend most of their time in the US, pursuing the American dream. Both of these figures have played a key role in the growth of AI as a technology, and their importance to global tech markets cannot be ignored. Moreover, Broadcom’s CEO, Hock Tan, is a Chinese-born individual, which shows that a lot of talent is popping up from China, although entirely crediting the country won’t be justice here.
These are the more mainstream examples of Chinese talent, but there are a lot of individuals out there that have contributed their portion towards innovation. Despite regional differences, we cannot ignore the fact that China’s presence in the technological markets is one of the significant reasons for modern-day innovation in the industry.
