London – Chinese regulator said on Monday that preliminary investigations found chip makers Nvidia Violating the country’s antitrust law.
Market Regulation State Government said in a statement in a sentence that it will conduct “further investigation” Nvidiathe world’s leading semiconductor manufacturer.
The statement said that the investigation Nvidia’s Buy Mellanox Technologies, a networking and data transmission company.
Nvidia No immediate response to a request for comment.
Regulators said last year that they were investigating the company for a $6.9 billion violation of the acquisition of Mellanox in 2019.
The decision has increased pressure on the United States as Washington officials held trade talks with Beijing’s representatives in Spain this week.
Beijing has been tightening scrutiny of the U.S. chip industry. On Saturday, China’s Commerce Department said it was conducting an anti-dumping investigation into certain analog chips imported from the United States, including commodity chips commonly made by companies such as Texas Instruments and Semiconductors.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met the Chinese deputy prime minister in Madrid for negotiating tariffs and national security issues related to ownership of social media platform Tiktok. Talks are scheduled to be held Sunday to Wednesday.
This is the fourth round of discussion after the meeting LondonGeneva and Stockholm. The two governments have agreed to several 90-day moratoriums on a series of increasing mutual tariffs, avoiding a full-scale trade war.
