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China finds that US chip giant Nvidia violated anti-monopoly law

The Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Photo: Getty Images/TNS

China’s antitrust regulator said on Monday it found American semiconductor giant Nvidia in violation of the country’s anti-monopoly law and would proceed with further investigation, an apparent response to escalating technology rivalry with the US.

The Nvidia-Mellanox deal, announced in 2019, received approval from the SAMR in April 2020 under the stipulation that Nvidia continue to supply its graphics processing unit accelerators, Mellanox’s high-speed network interconnect equipment, and related software and accessories to the Chinese market under “fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory principles”.

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