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China has revived the Antitruist’s investigation of Google and Nvidia, taking into account a new investigation against Intel, as Beijing seeks impact on interviews with US President Donald Trump.
The Chinese State Administration for Market Regulation announced On Tuesday, he opened an investigation into the Google competition, which two people were introduced to this question said they would focus on the dominance of the Android operating system of the US group and any damage done to Chinese PhoMeker, such as OPPO and Xiaomi, which use software use software .
The Chinese regulators, who announced a similar Antatrust investigation into Nvidia in December, also viewed the launch of a formal investigation into Intel, two people were introduced to the situation.
However, the nature of the probe in the American manufacturer of chips is unclear, one of the people said, adding whether he was officially launched could affect the state of the US-kine relationship. President XI Jinping will be expected to talk to Trump in the coming days.
Technical investigations can be part of retaliation, which made China in response to Trump’s new tariffs against the country, said Liu Xu, a researcher at the National Institute of Strategy of the University of Tsinghua.
Xu added that the use of antitrust investigations as a tool in trade negotiations may not be the best way to protect Chinese companies that hit US tariffs. “It would inevitably encourage controversy,” he said.
Beijing’s quarrels for the construction of cases against distinguished American technological companies are coming because they are increasingly caught in cross -fire of growing tensions between the two global forces.
The Google Sonda, which first started the regulators in 2019, was delayed for years, but was reopened in December, I was introduced to two people with this issue. The move followed before Trump laid the oath as an American president, who led the election campaign, promising the imposed steep tariff against Chinese goods.
Considering the new haste to launch a probe, Samr regulators visited the Google Office in Beijing in January before Trump came to duty and asked to hand over connected information, people said.
The leaving bidet administration also used its last months to reinforce export controls on advanced chips, wanting to suppress Chinese growing AI opportunities.
During this period, Samr announced in December that he was investigating the claims that Nvidia violated the obligations committed during the acquisition of Mellanox Technologies 2019, the Israeli companies that make equipment for a computer network.
Samr approved the acquisition in 2020 with conditions to prevent anti -concnity practice and provide supplies to China, and shortly thereafter she began to quietly collect appeals from the industry, the person familiarized with the issue said.
The probe surprised Nvidia, the world’s largest producer of advanced AI semiconductor.
Days before the announcement of Samr, NVIDIA managers met with the Chinese Ministry of Trade to discuss the operations of a $ 2.9tn $ 2.9tn chip producer in their second largest market outside the US, according to two people with knowledge of the meeting.
One of these people said that the Mofcom officials advised “Nvidia is welcome to continue to grow their business in China.” The country represented 13 percent of its global sales during the first three quarters of 2024, according to the company.
The antitrust investigations of major American technological companies could lead to financial penalties related to the global revenues of the companies or the loss of a particular access to the market on one of its largest international markets.
Intel’s China is the largest market around the world, which has surpassed the US. California chip manufacturer recorded $ 15.5 billion in sales in the country in 2024which makes up 29 percent of its global revenue, according to the company.
While Google’s search engine is blocked in China, along with most companies of the home company Alphabet, a US company profit from Chinese companies that are advertised abroad. Chinese PhoMekers also generally use their Android operating system.
Alphabet does not break out its income from China, but the Asian-Pacific region contributed 17 percent of sales in 2023.
Google and Nvidia refused to comment. Intel did not immediately respond to the commenting requests. Mofca and Samr based in Beijing did not answer faxed questions looking for a comment outside of working hours.
Additional reporting from Wenie Ding in Beijing
