{"id":41761,"date":"2023-10-02T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=41761"},"modified":"2023-10-03T09:08:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T13:08:04","slug":"french-authorities-raid-nvidia-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/french-authorities-raid-nvidia-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"French authorities raid Nvidia offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"1\">Nvidia has been raided by French competition authority (FCA) investigating potential anti-competitive practices.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">The FCA&#8217;s intervention, reported by French newspaper Challenges and the Wall Street Journal, focuses on Nvidia&#8217;s dominant position in the graphics cards sector. With an astonishing 84% market share, Nvidia&#8217;s GPUs are indispensable to various tech giants, data centers, video game console manufacturers, and cryptocurrency miners. Additionally, Nvidia&#8217;s GPUs play a pivotal role in driving artificial intelligence (AI) advancements, contributing significantly to AI-driven technologies like ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">The FCA said that it is investigating whether Nvidia has abused its dominant position in the GPU market. The FCA is also looking into whether Nvidia has engaged in anti-competitive practices in the cloud computing sector.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">The FCA\u2019s raid on Nvidia was authorized by a judge, and is a preliminary step in assessing potential anti-competitive practices. It is also part of European regulators effort to crack down on anti-competitive behavior by Big Tech companies.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"5\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/why-is-france-raiding-graphics-card-company-2023-09-29\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia has been raided by French competition authority (FCA) investigating potential anti-competitive practices. The FCA&#8217;s intervention, reported by French newspaper Challenges and the Wall Street Journal, focuses on Nvidia&#8217;s dominant position in the graphics cards sector. With an astonishing 84% market share, Nvidia&#8217;s GPUs are indispensable to various tech giants, data centers, video game console [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[330],"class_list":["post-41761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operations","tag-nvidia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41763,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41761\/revisions\/41763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}