China Moves to Approve Alibaba and ByteDance Buys of NVIDIA RTX Pro 5500
The move extends the export easing that began after the US lifted its H200 sales ban and the two countries agreed to a truce running to January 10, 2027, putting China's two largest AI buyers back in line for NVIDIA's newest workstation hardware.
Reporting from 1 source: GIGAZINE.
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has asked select domestic companies, including Alibaba and ByteDance, to report how many NVIDIA RTX Pro 5500 GPUs they want and what they will be used for, and plans to approve the purchases, The Information reports. The RTX Pro 5500 is a workstation GPU NVIDIA announced in September 2026 for large-scale AI models and simulations.
The ministry asked only select domestic companies to submit purchase quantities and intended uses, and the reported plan is to approve those requests. The RTX Pro 5500 is a workstation-oriented GPU, aimed at large-scale AI models and simulations, and it was announced by NVIDIA in September 2026.
The step follows a run of easing between Washington and Beijing: the US lifted its ban on sales of the HPC-oriented H200 to Chinese companies, China then approved those imports, and the two sides agreed to keep a trade war truce until January 10, 2027. The reported approval would place Alibaba and ByteDance among the buyers of the newer workstation part.
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