China Poised to Investigate More U.S. Tech Deals After Nvidia Probe

The Information · Jing Yang · last updated December 17, 2024 – 10:32 PM

As the U.S. restricts China’s access to American technology, Beijing is striking back—with antitrust reviews of both ongoing and long-completed acquisitions.

The Chinese antitrust regulator’s decision a week ago to investigate Nvidia for alleged violations of antitrust rules in relation to its 2020 purchase of Mellanox Technologies is likely to be the first of a series of such reviews by the Chinese government, according to three people familiar with Chinese regulators’ thinking.

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