Chinese regulators are investigating NVIDIA for potential antitrust violations

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NVIDIA, graphics chip maker and recent backbone of the AI industry, is under investigation by Chinese regulators over potential antitrust violations, The New York Times reports . The concerns center on the acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, a computer networking company NVIDIA bought in 2020 . As part of the conditions of that acquisition, Chinese regulators required NVIDIA to “provide information about new [Mellanox] products to rivals within 90 days of making them available to NVIDIA,” Bloomberg writes . China’s State Administration for Market Regulation is kicking off its investigation because it believes that those terms were violated. This wouldn’t be...