French Authorities Raid Nvidia Office as Part of Investigation into Graphics Card Sector

French authorities raided Nvidia's office in France as part of an investigation into the graphics card sector for possible anti-competitive practices.
The raid was related to a broader investigation into the cloud computing sector stemming from a June report on cloud rivalries.
Nvidia is a leading producer of graphics cards used for gaming, modeling, AI, and high performance computing.
Nvidia GPUs have become essential for AI, driving explosive adoption by cloud providers to train models like GPT-4.
The raid came as French companies announced deployments of Nvidia GPUs for AI workloads.

theregister.com

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