ATI And Nvidia Investigation Closed

By Davie Barret, October 13th 2008

AMD, Advanced Micro Devices, announced on Monday that the Department Of Justice has closed the investigation of ATI and Nvidia and that no action was taken. The investigation lasted two years and the two major video chip manufacturers were being suspected of conspiring to create a monopoly in the graphic cards market. The antitrust regulators put ATI and Nvidia under investigation just as AMD bought ATI and just as Nvidia released its GeForce 8800 graphics card. At the time, AMD acquired ATI for the price of $5, 4 billion and by doing so it has acquired one of the strongest and most popular video chip manufacturers out there. On December 1, 2006 AMD and Nvidia were issued subpoenas as part of a probe into possible anticompetitive practices within the "graphics processing unit and cards" industry. The investigaton was launched after DoJ received several complaints that AMD and Nvidia conspired to fix, raise, maintain, or stabilize the prices of graphics processing units and cards in violation of federal antitrust law and/or state antitrust law.

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