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      "title": "Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face",
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      "date": "2025-09-15",
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      "title": "China says Nvidia violated its antimonopoly law over the Mellanox conditions",
      "summary": "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.",
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      "date": "2025-09-15",
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      "title": "China's SAMR says a preliminary probe found Nvidia violated the Anti-Monopoly Law",
      "summary": "The State Administration for Market Regulation said its preliminary investigation found Nvidia had\nviolated China's Anti-Monopoly Law and the conditions attached to its 2020 approval of the Mellanox\nacquisition, and escalated the case to a formal investigation.",
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          "quote": "Recently, after preliminary investigation, Nvidia violated the Anti-Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China."
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          "quote": "近日，经初步调查，英伟达公司违反《中华人民共和国反垄断法》和《市场监管总局关于附加限制性条件批准英伟达公司收购迈络思科技有限公司股权案反垄断审查决定的公告》，市场监管总局依法决定对其实施进一步调查。"
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          "quote": "Nvidia said in a statement that it was complying with the law and would \"continue to cooperate with all relevant government agencies as they evaluate the impact of export controls on competition in the commercial markets.\""
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      "date": "2024-12-09",
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      "title": "China opens an antitrust investigation into Nvidia",
      "summary": "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.",
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          "quote": "In recent days, due to Nvidia's suspected violation of China's anti-monopoly law and the State Administration for Market Regulation's restrictive conditions around Nvidia's acquisition of Mellanox shares ... the State Administration for Market Regulation is opening a probe into Nvidia in accordance with law."
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      "date": "2020-04-16",
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      "summary": "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.",
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          "quote": "NVIDIA today announced that it has received approval from all necessary authorities to proceed with its planned acquisition of Mellanox, as announced in March 2019. The latest approval by China’s State Administration for Market Regulation follows antitrust approval from the European Commission and Mexico and the expiration of the waiting period under U.S. antitrust laws."
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