State Administration for Market Regulation
China's market regulator, whose merger reviews gate several chip deals tracked here.
Role in each timeline
- Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face
China's antitrust authority that cleared Mellanox with six-year conditions and is now investigating Nvidia's alleged breach of them.
- US Export Controls on Nvidia AI Chips to China: A100 to H20 to H200
Opened and later formalized an antitrust investigation into Nvidia concerning the Mellanox acquisition approval conditions.
State Administration for Market Regulation across every timeline
Every dated entry that names State Administration for Market Regulation, from all 2 timelines, newest first.
20252 entries
- China says Nvidia violated its antimonopoly law over the Mellanox conditions Legal
Five years after clearing the deal, SAMR announced that a preliminary investigation found Nvidia had breached the anti-monopoly law and the 2020 conditions, and said it would investigate further before deciding penalties. The finding landed during US-China trade talks in Madrid and a week before Beijing told companies to stop buying Nvidia's China chips.
on Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face - China's SAMR says a preliminary probe found Nvidia violated the Anti-Monopoly Law Legal
The State Administration for Market Regulation said its preliminary investigation found Nvidia had violated China's Anti-Monopoly Law and the conditions attached to its 2020 approval of the Mellanox acquisition, and escalated the case to a formal investigation.
on US Export Controls on Nvidia AI Chips to China: A100 to H20 to H200
20241 entry
- China opens an antitrust investigation into Nvidia Regulatory
China's State Administration for Market Regulation opened an investigation into Nvidia. The investigation concerned suspected Anti-Monopoly Law violations and conditions attached to approval of Nvidia's Mellanox acquisition.
on US Export Controls on Nvidia AI Chips to China: A100 to H20 to H200
20201 entry
- China's SAMR clears Mellanox with conditions after a year-long review Regulatory
Thirteen months after signing, China's State Administration for Market Regulation became the last authority to approve the deal, attaching behavioural conditions for six years: no bundling of GPUs with networking gear, supply on fair and non-discriminatory terms, and no restricting Chinese customers' access. The EU, Mexico and the US waiting period had already cleared.
on Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face