The General Rapporteur of the Autorité de la concurrence indicates that an unannounced inspection was carried out in the graphics cards sector

Following authorisation from a liberty and custody judge, the investigation services of the Autorité de la concurrence carried out a dawn raid at the premises of a company suspected of having implemented anticompetitive practices in the graphics cards sector.

This is part of the focus put on the cloud by the Autorité de la concurrence, which was the subject of an opinion on competition in its sector published on 29^th June 2023.

Such dawn raids do not pre-suppose the existence of a breach of the law which could be imputed to the company involved in the alleged practices, which only a full investigation into the merits of the case could establish, if appropriate.

The Autorité de la concurrence will not comment further, whether on the entity or on the practices in question.