China considers allowing ByteDance, Alibaba to purchase Nvidia chips
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China signaled possible approval for ByteDance and Alibaba to buy a newly released Nvidia workstation chip, the RTX Pro 5500, and Beijing’s Industry Ministry asked those companies and others for purchase numbers. One report said ByteDance was considering about 1 million of the chips, while another said the model and purchase scale were not provided in the earlier coverage.
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ByteDance, Alibaba and other companies are the ones that notice this first, because Beijing’s Industry Ministry has already asked them for purchase numbers tied to the RTX Pro 5500. That means the issue is no longer only about discussion of access; it has reached a stage where company-specific quantities are being collected.
What changes in practice is that the chip in question is described as a workstation product for high-end professional computers, not Nvidia’s familiar data-center GPU. What stays the same is that the exact model and purchase scale were still not fully stated in one piece, so the scope of any approval is not completely fixed in the public record.
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