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Nvidia's French offices raided in cloud-computing competition inquiry -WSJ

(Reuters) -France's competition authority raided Nvidia's local offices this week on suspicion the chipmaker engaged in anticompetitive practices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The French competition authority, which disclosed the dawn raid on Wednesday, did not say what...

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(Reuters) -France's competition authority raided Nvidia's local offices this week on suspicion the chipmaker engaged in anticompetitive practices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

The French competition authority, which disclosed the dawn raid on Wednesday, did not say what practices it was investigating or which company it had targeted, beyond saying it was in the "graphics cards sector."

The French competition authority said that its operation this week followed a broader inquiry into the cloud-computing sector. The broader inquiry revolves around concerns that cloud-computing companies could use their access to computing power to exclude smaller competitors.

This week's operation had targeted Nvidia, which is the world's largest maker of chips used both for artificial intelligence and for computer graphics, the WSJ report added, citing people familiar with the raid. Chips originally made for computer graphics are suited for AI-related computing.

Nvidia Linked to Dawn Raid by French Competition Regulators

(Bloomberg) -- French antitrust enforcers raided the offices of a business suspected of engaging in “anticompetitive practices in the graphics cards sector,” targeting a company that the Wall Street Journal identified as Nvidia Corp. Most Read from BloombergPakistan Rupee Set to Become Top...

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(Bloomberg) -- French antitrust enforcers raided the offices of a business suspected of engaging in “anticompetitive practices in the graphics cards sector,” targeting a company that the Wall Street Journal identified as Nvidia Corp.

“Raids do not presuppose the existence of a breach of the law,” France’s competition authority said in a statement on its website, “which only a full investigation into the merits of the case could establish, if appropriate.”

The agency didn’t cite Nvidia by name, and the Santa Clara, California-based company declined to comment on the matter.

The move suggests Nvidia’s dominant role in supplying chips for artificial intelligence tasks is coming under closer scrutiny. The company’s graphics processor units, which first became popular in video games, are increasingly essential to new systems that are used to train large language models and other types of AI software.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Begun the AI wars have!

 

[TheRedRiders]

CMA and other Western Anti-trust agencies: we're going to pursue every legal route to block your deal, we'll take it to court if we have to!

Meanwhile France: hold my baguette!

 

[GHG]

What they found:

 

[adamsapple]

 

[Magic Carpet]

I asked to buy some cards for cheap and they said no. I made a phone call and, Well Who's laughing now?

 

[pqueue]

Good!

 

[Dzab]

Should be raiding them for their absurd prices

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

Competition authority? Don't they have Denny's?

 

[Morrie’s wig shop]

Competition authority? Don't they have Denny's?

Lol, what? You talking the 24/7 diner/restaurant where as a teenager I would go with a group of unsavory people from high school to come down from a night of tripping on acid at 4 in the morning, that Denny’s……lol

 

[Gaelyon]

Monsieur, this is an Arby's.

 

[Lord Panda]

 

[West Texas CEO]

 

[Imtjnotu]

Wonder who tipped off the French government

 

[TheRedRiders]

Wonder who tipped off the French government

"I never narc'd on nobody!!!"

Lisa Su, probably.