Tuesday, July 2nd 2024
French Authorities to File Competition Charges Against NVIDIA
On July 1st, Reuters reported that the French antitrust authority plans to file charges against NVIDIA for alleged anti-competitive practices, marking France as the first country to take such action against the tech giant. This follows a raid on NVIDIA's local offices in September 2023, as we reported here, which was part of a broader investigation into the graphics card and cloud computing sectors. A recent report released by French authorities regarding competition in generative AI highlighted concerns about potential abuses of power by chip suppliers, specifically noting the industry reliance on NVIDIA. If NVIDIA is to be found guilty of charges made by French authorities it can be facing fines of up to 10% of its global annual revenue. However, NVIDIA may have the option to make concessions to avoid such penalties.
As the world's largest manufacturer of AI chips and computer graphics cards, NVIDIA is under intense scrutiny from antitrust authorities in Europe and the United States. The European Commission is gathering informal feedback to assess whether NVIDIA had breached its antitrust rules, though it has not yet launched a formal investigation. The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are reportedly conducting joint investigations into NVIDIA, Microsoft, and OpenAI, reflecting growing regulatory concern in the United States over these tech giants' market influence.
Sources:
eeNews, TrendForce, Reuters
As the world's largest manufacturer of AI chips and computer graphics cards, NVIDIA is under intense scrutiny from antitrust authorities in Europe and the United States. The European Commission is gathering informal feedback to assess whether NVIDIA had breached its antitrust rules, though it has not yet launched a formal investigation. The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are reportedly conducting joint investigations into NVIDIA, Microsoft, and OpenAI, reflecting growing regulatory concern in the United States over these tech giants' market influence.
21 Comments on French Authorities to File Competition Charges Against NVIDIA
Joking aside, I've had both Nvidia and AMD GPUs over the years. While Nvidia has basically been the crown winner for most powerful hardware, more often than not the two teams trade a back-and-forth with value. I...would say that Nvidia getting a black eye for treating everyone as cash machines would be nice...given Jensen has already stated that he's come around to not giving a crap about anyone that cannot put huge amounts of money down to buy a server farm's worth of his hardware.
That said...how long will this really take? There's a part of me that's already asking how much the EU is willing to roll the dice on making Nvidia pay them...when the primary motivation for China to seek reunion with Taiwan (besides the one China policy) is the amount of semiconductor hardware available a short hop away from the mainland. Considering the embargoes...it's a fine line between protecting us and not pissing off the company that is currently defining the near future.
Nvidia especially in OEM system's AMD has little to no ground. If that is because Nvidia incentives prevent them from carving out smaller segments of the market, that should be dealt with.
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nGreedia needs a smack it won't forget.
www.tomshardware.com/news/eu-investigates-gpu-market-abuse-in-wake-of-nvidia-office-raid
why not, but remember huawei they were 1st for some years, sanctions have killed the smartphones
will see but there is more important to do right now
nGreedia just got insanely lucky with timing and with Cuda, A.I. pretty much came out of nowhere and exploded, and nGreedia was the only ones with the whole platform.
As soon as a workaround for Cuda comes out, nGreedia is dead.
www.jonpeddie.com/news/shipments-of-graphics-add-in-boards-decline-in-q1-of-24-as-the-market-experiences-a-return-to-seasonality/
This is not a healthy market at all and it's only going to lead to more abuses by Nvidia. I don't follow the AI side of this. Just the gaming side and I believe that RT is the future of gaming despite the opposition. It's just going to happen anyway and some gamers will be dragged kicking and screaming into that future but once there they will accept it.
There has been a recent article here on TPU that AMD's next generation GPUs will be much better at RT and now there is an article that Intel's next dGPU will be better. I hope they deliver and some balance and better prices as a result come to the gaming market. I remain a bit skeptical though. Hope floats.....but so do turds.
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