Nvidia places of work raided by French competitors authority

Nvidia’s France places of work had been raided by the nation’s competitors authority this week, in accordance with a report from The Wall Avenue Journal. Whereas the French company doesn’t point out Nvidia by identify, it confirms it carried out a raid over considerations about anti-competitive practices within the graphics playing cards business.

Sources inform the WSJ that French authorities particularly focused Nvidia, which has seen demand for its chips skyrocket in current months. A number of corporations, together with Microsoft and OpenAI, have bought hundreds of the corporate’s high-end AI chips to energy massive language fashions.

In line with the WSJ, all these raids happen early within the morning and have authorities “search an organization’s premises, seize bodily and digital supplies and interview staff who arrive for work.” The French authority says it carried out the raid as a part of its elevated scrutiny on cloud know-how, a subject the company printed a market research on in June.

A machine-translated model of the French company’s press launch says that daybreak raids “don’t pre-suppose the existence of a breach of the regulation,” which is one thing “solely a full investigation” can set up. Nvidia declined to touch upon the story. Nevertheless, a raid may recommend that Nvidia’s reign within the chipmaking market isn’t going unnoticed by international governments.