At the back end of 2025, Nvidia secured its biggest ever deal, a $20 billion non-exclusive agreement with AI chip company Groq. Now, as reported by the New York Times, per "two people with knowledge of the inquiry", the Department of Justice (DOJ) is probing to discover whether the deal was organised in a way that would get around antitrust scrutiny. If found at fault, the people say, Nvidia could be fined.
The original agreement gives Nvidia non-exclusive rights to Groq tech, namely AI chips that are good for low-latency inference. The first Nvidia AI rack featuring Groq chips is said to go live later this year.
According to the NYT, one of the two people with knowledge of the inquiry claims the DOJ has sent Nvidia a formal demand for information about the Groq deal. The issue appears to be ...
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