Official statement published
EU competition authorities are not conducting a formal investigation into chips used for artificial intelligence, the European Commission announced on Monday, October 2.
“The Commission is not conducting a formal investigation into the matter you refer to,” an EU executive spokesman said in an email to Reuters, which asked for comment on the rumors.
Formally, there are no questions to Nvidia even after the raid.
A few days earlier, the French antitrust authority raided Nvidia on suspicion of anti-competitive practices. Nvidia declined to comment on the situation after the French raid.
Last week, Bloomberg reported that the EU’s competition watchdog was informally gathering views on potentially unfair practices in the GPU market.