According to Bloomberg, the new subpoenas follow on from a questionnaire the Justice Department previously sent to Nvidia.
Nvidia has reportedly received legally binding requests for information from the United States, part of a Justice Department investigation into whether the semiconductor vendor violated antirust rules over its dominance of the artificial intelligence processor market.
According to Bloomberg, the new summons follow on from a questionnaire previously sent to Nvidia by the Justice Department. The US is close to filing a formal complaint against the Santa Clara, California-based vendor.
Investigators are looking into whether Nvidia makes it difficult for customers to switch suppliers, whether it penalizes them for not using Nvidia AI chips in particular, and whether it penalizes customers for not using Nvidia AI chips. acquisition According to Bloomberg, the director of AI computing software company RunAI has started an investigation into the matter. The San Francisco office of the Justice Department has taken over the investigation.
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Nvidia antitrust investigation
CRN has contacted Nvidia and the Justice Department for comment.
The US and EU have investigated several technology vendors for alleged anti-competitive behaviour, as well as unusual deals struck with new AI manufacturers amid growing commercial demand for the emerging technology.
Recently, Google Government It has a monopoly on its activities in the online advertising market.
In January, the FTC announced that Microsoft, OpenAI, Amazon, Google parent company Alphabet, and Anthropic were required to turn over information about their recent investments and partnerships. In July, the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published a letter saying it “may launch an investigation” into an unusual deal between Microsoft and AI upstart Inflection that resulted in Microsoft hiring Inflection’s co-founder and CEO.
We Antitrust cases Protests against Amazon and Apple are also still ongoing.