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Beijing will extend its investigation into Nvidia, the communist regime’s market regulator said on Sept. 15, after a preliminary review decided the U.S. chipmaker breached China’s anti-monopoly law.
The probe against Nvidia was
launched back in December 2024, when China’s State Administration for Market Regulation said the company was suspected of violating the country’s anti-monopoly law.
It also accused Nvidia of potentially failing to uphold a commitment related to its $6.9 billion deal to buy Israeli-American chip designer Mellanox Technologies, for which Beijing
granted conditional approval in April 2020.
No details about the alleged wrongdoings were given in the brief
statement released by the market regulator.
The Epoch Times has reached out to Nvidia for comment.
The announcement of a continued probe into Nvidia came as U.S.-China trade talks continue in Madrid. Among the key issues on the agenda are the new
tariffs the Trump administration wants to levy on the Chinese communist regime over its purchase of
sanctioned Russian oil, the looming deadline for Chinese company ByteDance to divest itself of TikTok, and Chinese money laundering.
The U.S. delegation is led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng and Ministry of Commerce official Li Chenggang are representing Beijing’s interests.
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Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent arrives at the foreign ministry in Madrid ahead of trade talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in the Spanish capital on Sept. 14, 2025. Thomas COEX / AFP via Getty Images
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Amid its trade war with Washington, Beijing has ramped up pressure on Nvidia. On July 31, the Cyberspace Administration of China said it had
summoned the chipmaker to explain the alleged “security risks linked to back doors” in the company’s H20 chips sold in China, and to provide supporting materials.
Nvidia responded at that time by saying that its chips don’t have any back doors that would allow a remote way to access or control them.
The following day, the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party,
published an editorial on domestic social media platforms titled, “Nvidia, How Can I Trust You?”
In the commentary, the publication urged Nvidia to comply with the internet regulator’s demand and provide “convincing security proofs” to ease Chinese customers’ concerns over its products.
Nvidia later reaffirmed the security of its chips.
“There are no back doors in Nvidia chips. No kill switches. No spyware,” Nvidia Chief Security Officer David Reber Jr.,
said in a blog post on Aug. 5.
“That’s not how trustworthy systems are built—and never will be.”
A Chinese version of the article was also published on the company’s official accounts on WeChat.
On Aug. 10, Yuyuan Tantian, a social media account affiliated with China’s state broadcaster CCTV, called on domestic companies to
avoid using Nvidia’s chips, citing alleged back door issues embedded within the products.
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Catherine Yang contributed to this report.
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