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China hints approval for Alibaba, ByteDance Nvidia RTX Pro 5500

By Drooid · Sep 27, 2026, 10:19 PM UTC · How we work

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China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology signaled possible approval for Alibaba and ByteDance to buy Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips.
The ministry requested the firms report purchase quantities and intended uses.
RTX Pro 5500 is a Blackwell workstation GPU with 84 GB memory, 21,760 CUDA cores and costs over $6,000.
The chip falls outside the data-center accelerator category subject to United States (U.S.) export controls since October 2022.

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China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology signaled possible approval for Alibaba and ByteDance to buy Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips.
The ministry requested the firms report purchase quantities and intended uses.
RTX Pro 5500 is a Blackwell workstation GPU with 84 GB memory, 21,760 CUDA cores and costs over $6,000.
The chip falls outside the data-center accelerator category subject to United States (U.S.) export controls since October 2022.