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Announced European Commission approval of acquisition of Run:ai Labs by NVIDIA under the EU Merger Regulation

On 20 December 2024, the European Commission (EC) unconditionally approved the proposed acquisition of Run:ai Labs (Run:ai) by NVIDIA. The Commission investigated the transaction's impact on the markets for discrete GPUs for data centres and GPU orc…

Scope

Policy Area
Competition
Policy Instrument
Merger control regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
ML and AI development, semiconductors, infrastructure provider: cloud computing, storage and databases
Implementation Level
supranational
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
competition authority

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2024-10-31
under deliberation

On 31 October 2024, the European Commission (EC) opened an investigation into the proposed acquisit…

2024-12-20
concluded

On 20 December 2024, the European Commission (EC) unconditionally approved the proposed acquisition…

2025-01-10
under appeal

On 10 January 2025, Nvidia Corp. filed a lawsuit against the European Commission at the General Cou…