China says Nvidia violated antitrust regulations | TechCrunch

Trade tensions over semiconductors between China and the United States have become even more tense.

On Monday, the Chinese national regulations government ruled that semiconductor giant Nvidia violated the country’s antitrust regulations because First report on Bloomberg. The ruling means NVIDIA’s 2020 acquisition of Mellanox Technologiesa computer network supplier, priced at $7 billion.

A NVIDIA spokesman provided the following statement to the following statement: “We comply with the law in all respects. We will continue to work with all relevant government agencies as we evaluate the impact of export controls on competition in the commercial market.”

China has not announced any consequences related to its discovery and will continue to investigate. Nevertheless, the ruling could debate on ongoing tariff negotiations between the United States and China currently in Madrid. Although these trade discussions are not specifically discussed for semiconductors, the issue of China’s entry into NVIDIA chips is the main point of debate between the two institutions.

The outgoing Biden administration announced AI diffusion rules Back in January, it was designed to limit US-made AI chips to many countries and further restrictions were imposed on China and other rivals.

The U.S. Department of Commerce Biden’s AI rules are officially abolished in Maythe future of AI chip exports to China is still in a state of constant change. Trump administration shoots License Agreement On the bargaining chips to China in April. A few months later, these companies were Given the green light Start selling these chips again.

Just a few weeks later, the country concluded a deal requiring companies to sell chips to China to the United States Cut revenue by 15% Proceed to these sales. China dissuads the company to not be closed Purchase NVIDIA chips And, at the end Recent earnings callthe company’s chips have not been implemented through new export processes.