Government will intervene if NVIDIA does 10-year forward contract locking up TSMC

Government will intervene if NVIDIA does 10-year forward contract locking up TSMC | it's the government that will ultimately say it's anti-competitive to do a 10-year forward contract on all of their manufacturing capacity

it's the government that will ultimately say it's anti-competitive to do a 10-year forward contract on all of their manufacturing capacity

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  "caveats": "Conditional on NVIDIA attempting 10-year lock-up",
  "context": "it's the government that will ultimately say it's anti-competitive to do a 10-year forward contract on all of their manufacturing capacity and that's where the rubber is going to hit the road.",
  "verbatim": "it's the government that will ultimately say it's anti-competitive to do a 10-year forward contract on all of their manufacturing capacity",
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      "source": "https://www.benzinga.com/markets/equities/24/09/40768376/nvidia-faces-antitrust-probe-over-market-dominance-as-doj-ftc-crack-down-on-ai-powerhouses-repor",
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      "label": "Nvidia agreed to remit 15% of China chip-sale revenue directly to US government in exchange for reversing specific AI chip export bans.",
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      "label": "NVIDIA discloses long-term TSMC capacity reservation (multi-year lock-up)",
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