China’s 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.

China’s market regulator on Monday said that Nvidia violated the country’s anti-monopoly law, according to a preliminary probe, adding that Beijing would continue its investigation into the U.S. chip giant. Shares of Nvidia were down around 2% in premarket trading.

China is ramping up scrutiny of US chipmaker Nvidia as trade frictions strain ties between the world's two largest economies. The state anti-trust regulator, SAMR, said a preliminary review of the AI chip leader uncovered potential breaches of China's anti-monopoly laws.

Authorities said they would continue to investigate the U.S. chipmaker as negotiators from China and the U.S. were meeting to try to ease mounting trade tensions.

China launches fresh antitrust probe into Nvidia, citing breaches of competition law and Mellanox commitments, as US-China trade talks continue.

AI chipmaker Nvidia has increasingly found itself caught in a tug of war between Washington and Beijing. And on Monday, China gave a mighty pull—ruling that Nvidia had violated the country’s antitrust laws.

China’s antitrust regulator said on Monday it found Nvidia in violation of the country’s anti-monopoly law and would proceed with further investigation, which could lead to punitive actions against the American chipmaker amid escalating technology rivalry with the US.

Lately, I have noticed a lot of talk about the SAMR model of technology integration. For those unfamiliar, SAMR is a framework for evaluating the level at which a given technology has had an impact on teaching and learning. The acronym stands for ...