EU Begins Early-Stage Probe Into AI Chip Market Abuses that Nvidia Dominates

  • EU competition officials examining potential market abuses
  • French antitrust officials are looking at Nvidia’s dominance

A Nvidia Corp. artificial intelligence supercomputing graphics processing unit.

Photographer: I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg
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The European Union is examining alleged anticompetitive abuses in chips used for artificial intelligence, a market that’s dominated by Nvidia Corp.

The European Commission has been informally collecting views on potentially abusive practices in the sector for so-called graphics processing units, to understand if there could be the need for future intervention, people familiar with the matter said. The early stage investigation may never result in a formal probe or penalties.