The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed on Wednesday an appeal by artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia seeking to avoid a securities fraud lawsuit by shareholders who accused the company of misleading investors about how much of its sales depended on the volatile cryptocurrency market.

The U.S. Supreme Court sidestepped on Wednesday a decision on whether to allow shareholders to proceed with a securities fraud lawsuit accusing artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia of misleading investors about how much of its sales depended on the volatile cryptocurrency market.

The US Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Nvidia Corp., leaving it to face a lawsuit that accuses the company of misleading shareholders about its reliance on crypto-mining revenue in the run-up to a market crash.

In an unsigned order, the justices dismissed the case against the tech giant as “improvidently granted,” meaning they had concluded that it had been a mistake to take it up.

The justices on Wednesday dismissed a dispute over a securities fraud case brought against graphics chip maker NVIDIA. Shareholders argued that NVIDIA did not disclose the extent to which sales to crypto-miners,