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Re:FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger by mroche on Friday December 03, 2021 @12:41AM (#29426982)
> Perhaps that is against the tos and a large company couldn't get away with it like an individual can?

A while back they made a change to the terms of the GeForce driver, barring it from deployment in datacenters except for blockchain processing.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/nvidia-updates-ge...

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/geforce-license/

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Re:FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger by Gene_Parmesan on Friday December 03, 2021 @04:22AM (#29428163)
Wasn't the ostensible justification here making the cards more available for the enthusiast gaming market they were (to some extent) intended for?

That's an honest question, I can't fully recall.

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Re:FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger by impulser_ on Sunday December 05, 2021 @01:46AM (#29447338)
That might be what they labeled it as, but it really was to prevent companies from buying the cheaper GPU for AI training.

They need their datacenter GPU numbers to look good at the end of the Q, they can't do that when all they are selling are 3090 that are perfectly fine to train the majority of AI models.

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