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China accuses Nvidia of breaking anti-monopoly rules ahead of trade talks 
with US

Date:
Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:46:00 +0000

Description:
China says Nvidia has violated agreements made during its acquisition of
Mellanox Technologies.

FULL STORY

Chinas State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has accused Nvidia 
of violating an anti-monopoly law, launching a preliminary probe into the US
tech giant. 

The violations allege that Nvidia has broken commitments made in 2020 when it
acquired Mellanox Technologies for $6.9 billion, however details of the
violations have not been shared. 

If found guilty, Nvidia could face a fine worth between 1% and 10% of its
prior year sales in a market thats hugely important to it (accounting for
around 13% of its total revenue last fiscal year).

Nvidia could be in trouble in China

The news comes as the US and China prepare for trade talks in Madrid, with
chips expected to be central to discussions. China has also launched a
discrimination investigation into US chip restrictions, questioning Tencent
and ByteDance over their Nvidia H20 chip purchases. 

Recently, after preliminary investigation, Nvidia violated the Antimonopoly
Law of the People's Republic of China and the Announcement of the General
Administration of Market Supervision on the Anti-monopoly Review Decision on
the Approval of NVIDIA's Acquisition of the Equity of Mylos Technology Co.,
Ltd. under Additional Restrictions, and the General Administration of Market
Supervision decided to conduct further investigation into it in accordance
with the law, SAMR shared (translated). 

Despite ongoing geopolitical tensions between China and the US, Nvidia CEO
Jensen Huang has previously advocated for continued chip sales to China,
warning that Chinese firms like Huawei could fill the gap and cost the US
billions in trade. 

As a result, Nvidia has secured a deal with the US government to resume sales
to China, at the cost of 15% of its revenue. China-specific H20 chips are
still believed to be off sale, but scaled-down Blackwell chips could be
approved. The company generated $17 billion in revenue from China alone last
fiscal year. 

Nvidia shares dropped 2-3% in pre-market trading following the SAMR
announcement. TechRadar Pro has asked Nvidia for a comment, but we did not
receive an immediate response.

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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/china-accuses-nvidia-of-breaking-anti-monopoly-r
ules-ahead-of-trade-talks-with-us

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