BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Friday it has approved unconditionally Nvidia's (NVDA) $700 million bid for Run:ai.

Nvidia stock was down 25 before the bell on Friday.

The EU's probe into the deal focused on practices that could strengthen Nvidia's control over GPUs, sought-after chips that divide and process computer tasks, but it concluded that the acquisition of Run:ai would not raise competition concerns.

(Reporting by Charlotte Van Campenhout; Editing by Susan Fenton)