For people not knowing French, the Nvidia offices were not raided by heavily armed forces, with guns or whatever shooting.
“Perquisition” is just some cops/people coming and getting into your stuff or taking it for analysis. It’s like a search in Nvidia’s stuff/software/internal communications. It required a warrant given by a judge.
This is a problem with the US news in general because it uses the words “raid” and “execute search warrant on” as synonyms, when the former conjures up images of guys in body-armor with carbines and the latter a couple of cops and a bunch of specialized investigators. Like, various layers of US government have “raided” many of Trump’s properties, and obviously it was the latter and not the former, it’s not like Trump is gonna get the Breonna Taylor service.
Also, just to be absolutely clear, no neighbours were shot, or anything of the sort.
People are more likely to click on exciting headlines that play up drama, its like clickbait 101. “Nvidia office was searched” may be a more accurate realistic description but not super exciting. When I see ‘raid’ I think of SWAT teams busting up drug cartel homebases.
But that’s exactly what I assumed happened when reading the headline. Almost no native English speaker would assume it meant there was a shootout, or violence, or whatever. What you described is a typical “raid” executed against a company.
I think for a lot of people the word raid has connotation with an armed police raid.
Nvidia is pretty cut throat so the chances of them doing something wrong are high, but i’m not sure about the chances of finding evidence. they must have effective policies to defeat investigations, most big companies have them.
Never underestimate the power of dumb procedures or the power of a government body who is certain they have a case.
Also remember, if it’s not the act, it’s usually the cover-up that gets ppl and companies on the hook.
Either way, this will be interesting.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Nvidia’s France offices were raided by the country’s competition authority this week, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
While the French agency doesn’t mention Nvidia by name, it confirms it carried out a raid over concerns about anti-competitive practices in the graphics cards industry.
Sources tell the WSJ that French authorities specifically targeted Nvidia, which has seen demand for its chips skyrocket in recent months.
According to the WSJ, these types of raids occur early in the morning and have authorities “search a company’s premises, seize physical and digital materials and interview employees who arrive for work.” The French authority says it conducted the raid as part of its increased scrutiny on cloud technology, a topic the agency published a market study on in June.
A machine-translated version of the French agency’s press release says that dawn raids “do not pre-suppose the existence of a breach of the law,” which is something “only a full investigation” can establish.
However, a raid could suggest that Nvidia’s reign in the chipmaking market isn’t going unnoticed by global governments.
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