France’s antitrust probe into Nvidia is nearing its end, regulator says
France’s competition regulator has signalled that its long-running inquiry into Nvidia is drawing to a close, edging the world’s most valuable chipmaker nearer to a formal reckoning over how it wields its grip on the market for artificial intelligence hardware.
The company has long been tipped to face antitrust charges in France, and any decision could set an early European marker for how AI chips are policed.
“We are nearing the end of the investigation,” Umberto Berkani, the general rapporteur of the Autórité de la concurrence, told reporters on Thursday, in comments reported by Reuters. He offered no firm date for a ruling.
The case dates to September 2023, when French investigators raided Nvidia’s local offices as part of a broader inquiry into competition in the cloud computing sector. That search later hardened into a dedicated antitrust file focused on the chipmaker itself.
In mid-2024 the authority published a...
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