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(Reuters) -France’s competitors authority raided Nvidia (NASDAQ:)’s native places of work this week on suspicion the chipmaker engaged in anticompetitive practices, the Wall Road Journal reported on Thursday.
The French competitors authority, which disclosed the daybreak raid on Wednesday, didn’t say what practices it was investigating or which firm it had focused, past saying it was within the “graphics playing cards sector,” the report mentioned.
The Journal additionally reported that the French authority mentioned that its operation this week adopted a broader inquiry into the cloud-computing sector, through which it cited issues that cloud-computing firms might use their entry to computing energy to exclude smaller opponents.
The operation had focused Nvidia, which is the world’s largest maker of chips used each for synthetic intelligence and for pc graphics, the report added, citing individuals aware of the raid.
Nvidia declined to remark, whereas the French competitors authority didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.