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The
European Commission has been informally collecting views on
potentially abusive practices in the sector for graphics
processing units (GPU), used for AI work as well for gaming, to
understand if there's need for future intervention, the report
said.
The early-stage investigation may never result in a formal probe
or penalties, the report added.
Nvidia, which has a near-monopoly on the GPU market with its 80%
market share, declined to comment, while the European Commission
did not immediately respond to a Reuters' request for comment.
French authorities have also been interviewing market players on
Nvidia's key role in AI chips, its price policy, the shortage of
chips and its impact on prices, the report added.
France's competition authority on Tuesday conducted a raid on a
company in the "graphics cards sector", which a person with
direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters was Nvidia.
Nvidia's stock and demand for its chips shot up after generative
AI chatbot ChatGPT's stellar rise last year.
The company's chips are found in almost all systems globally
that power applications like ChatGPT, the reason Nvidia is the
only trillion-dollar semiconductor firm in the world.
(Reporting by Chavi Mehta in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi
Majumdar and Shinjini Ganguli)
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