2023-09-29 12:31:26
Published on September 29, 2023 at 12:37 Updated on September 29, 2023 at 2:31 p.m.
The day of September 26, 2023 had started well for Nvidia in France. But while the Iliad group had just publicly announced that it had purchased more than 1,000 H100 graphics processors from the American group, the champion of chips for artificial intelligence also received a visit from the same day in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine). sleuths of the Competition Authority.
Without specifying the name of the target company, the French antitrust services indicate having carried out an unannounced visit and seizure operation – in short, a search – of “a company suspected of having implemented anti-competitive practices in the sector of graphics cards”. At this stage, however, there is nothing to prejudge the guilt of the company concerned, specifies the institution. Contacted, Nvidia France made no comment.
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