'Nvidia wins on merit, as reflected in our benchmark results and value to customers, who can choose whatever solution is best for them,' a spokesperson for the Silicon Valley-based chip maker said in response to an Agence France-Presse inquiry.While chip buyers do have options, Nvidia is considered the technology leader when it comes to AI chips even though rivals are working hard to compete.
The US Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The world's biggest tech companies have invested tens of billions of dollars into Nvidia's powerful AI chips and software in order to get their ChatGPT-style AI models up and running.Microsoft, Google, Meta, Tesla and Amazon all depend on Nvidia technology to train generative AI models and execute the heavy computing workloads needed to deploy the new technology.