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ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent reportedly order 3M Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 GPUs, about $35B

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have reportedly ordered about 3 million export-compliant Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 workstation GPUs worth roughly $35 billion, per Tom's Hardware's account of the reports. The headline says warnings suggest only 10% of orders are fulfillable. No Nvidia comment was visible in the article.

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Tom's Hardwaretomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/chinas-tech-giants-drop-usd35-billion-on-export-compliant-nvidia-rtx-pro-5500-workstation-gpu-orders-to-power-ai-ambitions-according-to-reports-bytedance-alibaba-and-tencent-order-3-million-cards-despite-warnings-that-only-10-percent-of-orders-are-fulfillable

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Tuesday, October 20, 2026

06:40
Reuters
Sources: ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent ordered 3M+ of Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 GPUs worth $35B+, in a rush to secure less powerful, export-compliant chips
06:40
Bloomberg Law
news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/chinese-firms-order-35-billion-in-nvidia-chips-reuters-says
08:10
Seoul Economic Daily
en.sedaily.com/international/2026/10/20/bytedance-alibaba-tencent-order-35-billion-in-nvidia-chips
08:40
Tom's Hardware
tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/chinas-tech-giants-drop-usd35-billion-on-export-compliant-nvidia-rtx-pro-5500-workstation-gpu-orders-to-power-ai-ambitions-according-to-reports-bytedance-alibaba-and-tencent-order-3-million-cards-despite-warnings-that-only-10-percent-of-orders-are-fulfillable
09:10
Crypto Briefing
cryptobriefing.com/chinese-tech-giants-nvidia-rtx-pro-5500-orders/
09:40
The Verge
theverge.com/tech/1014223/nvidia-cant-fulfill-chinas-35-billion-chip-demands
11:40
ZeroHedge News
zerohedge.com/ai/chinese-tech-giants-order-35-billion-nvidias-latest-compliant-gpus-except-theres-huge-problem
14:10
Quartz
qz.com/bytedance-alibaba-tencent-nvidia-chip-orders-102026
19:10
Semafor
semafor.com/article/10/20/2026/chinese-tech-firms-purchase-more-than-35-billion-of-nvidia-chips-reuters

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