Europe to check for competition issues in AI chip market

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No formal moves yet, but massive demand for GPUs has drawn its attention

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Nvidia declined to comment on any potential EC investigation into anticompetitive practices in AI chips, and a spokesperson for the EC toldHowever, the EC is understood to continually monitor for possible anticompetitive market practices and any abusive conduct in all sectors, including the market for computer chips. It is likely that the recent surge in demand for GPUs to accelerate AI model training and the resultant price rise has drawn its attention.

There is one natural check to growth: It appears this bottom line expansion is partly driven by the company’s inability to meet the huge demand for its latest cutting-edge products. As we, a lack of packaging capacity at Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer TSMC means that it cannot make enough: TSMC said it is only able to meet about 80 percent of demand for its chip on wafer on substrate packaging, used for Nvidia’s A100 and H100 GPUs.

 

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