The French antitrust agency will be the first to punish Nvidia for anti-competitive actions, according to sources.
Sources say the French statement of objections or charge sheet followed September dawn raids on Nvidia’s graphics cards. The raids were part of a cloud computing investigation.
After the debut of ChatGPT, the world’s largest maker of AI and computer graphics chips saw demand rise, prompting regulatory scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic.
Nvidia and the French regulator, which publishes some but not all company complaints, rejected comment. According to a regulatory filing last year, EU, Chinese, and French officials had requested graphic card data.
Since the French government is investigating Nvidia, additional sources claimed the European Commission is unlikely to widen its preliminary review.
It raised concerns about the sector’s dependence on Nvidia’s CUDA chip programming language, the only system 100% compatible with GPUs needed for accelerated computing.
