China gauges Alibaba and ByteDance purchases of Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 chips
The Information and CNBC reported on 27–28 September 2026 that China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology asked firms including ByteDance and Alibaba for purchase plans for the RTX PRO 5500—an 84 GB Blackwell workstation chip launched 14 September—and signalled intent to approve. ByteDance is said to be weighing on the order of one million units; Nvidia is said to plan China shipments from late December.