AI: French antitrust authority opens investigation against Nvidia
The President of the French Autorité de la concurrence has confirmed that the authority has launched an investigation against Nvidia.
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The French antitrust authority Autorité de la concurrence has now officially launched an investigation into chip manufacturer Nvidia. This was confirmed by the president of the authority, Benoît Cœuré, to the news agency Reuters on Monday. If the investigation confirms the suspicion of anti-competitive behavior, the company could face a fine.
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The antitrust authority had previously investigated the market for high-performance AI chips and identified a number of competition risks. In a report, the authority also expressed concerns that Nvidia has too much market power with its chips and the CUDA platform and could abuse this.
Nvidia's high-performance chips and the CUDA platform for programming are almost indispensable in the field of artificial intelligence. In addition, Nvidia is currently trying to make its own products increasingly all-encompassing – right up to complete supercomputers from a single source.
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