🇺🇸The U.S. Department of Justice is reportedly investigating NVIDIA’s licensing arrangement with AI-chipmaker Groq for potential antitrust-review circumvention.

Two people familiar with the matter reportedly said the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether NVIDIA (英伟达) attempted to circumvent antitrust review through its arrangement with Groq, the AI-chip company. The supplied reports describe an investigation, not a finding that NVIDIA violated antitrust law.

Groq described the transaction, signed the previous year, as a “non-exclusive licensing agreement” (非独家许可协议). According to the report, it allowed NVIDIA to use Groq’s chips designed specifically for AI workloads.

The arrangement also involved Groq chief executive Jonathan Ross (乔纳森·罗斯) and chief operating officer Sunny Madra (桑尼·马德拉) joining NVIDIA. The source places the transaction within a category of arrangements involving technology licensing and the hiring of key employees without an outright acquisition.

The report explains that these structures can avoid the automatic government review applied to traditional mergers and acquisitions. It provides no transaction consideration, licensing duration, formal charge, or regulatory conclusion; a financialjuice alert attributes the investigation story to The New York Times, but no original newspaper article URL is supplied.