In GPU We Antitrust
The Next Platform, Monday, December 9th, 2024
With all of this chatter about China looking into possible violations of antitrust law by Nvidia, and regulators in both the United States and the European Union also having done the same, let's play the 'What if?' game for a just a moment.
These 'What ifs' are based on the idea that a court, most likely in the United States because America, in theory, has more jurisdiction over companies based within its borders than do those outside, might get a complaint about Nvidia, possible from the Justice Department, possibly from a regulator or lawyer in one of the 50 states.
We are not saying this is probable, but just doing a little war gaming to see what this might look like when there is a trade war and when one company has so much sway over the stock market and the revenue and profit pools in the IT sector these days, which will continue to raise the eyebrows of antitrust regulators.