--- title: China reportedly may let Alibaba and ByteDance buy new... description: China's government reportedly signaled it may approve purchases of Nvidia's new RTX Pro 5500 workstation GPU by companies like Alibaba and ByteDance, according... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/china-reportedly-may-let-alibaba-and-bytedance-buy-new-nvidia-chips-2rn307ea2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: China reportedly may let Alibaba and ByteDance buy new Nvidia chips | daily.dev og:description: China's government reportedly signaled it may approve purchases of Nvidia's new RTX Pro 5500 workstation GPU by companies like Alibaba and ByteDance, according... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/china-reportedly-may-let-alibaba-and-bytedance-buy-new-nvidia-chips-2rn307ea2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2rn307Ea2.png og:image:alt: China reportedly may let Alibaba and ByteDance buy new Nvidia chips og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # China reportedly may let Alibaba and ByteDance buy new Nvidia chips **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 2 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary China's government reportedly signaled it may approve purchases of Nvidia's new RTX Pro 5500 workstation GPU by companies like Alibaba and ByteDance, according to an unverified report from The Information. The tech ministry has asked firms about planned purchase volumes and intended uses. The RTX Pro 5500 is a Blackwell-based workstation card with 84GB of GDDR7 memory, unveiled this month. Nvidia's China sales have been constrained by both US export controls and Beijing's own restrictions favoring domestic chipmakers; earlier this year the US approved H200 sales to China but required ByteDance and Tencent to keep initial shipments in Hong Kong rather than the mainland. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 and how much memory does it have? The RTX Pro 5500 is a workstation graphics card built on Nvidia's Blackwell architecture, featuring 84GB of GDDR7 memory. Nvidia unveiled it this month. Chinese firms including Alibaba and ByteDance reportedly want to purchase it, with China's tech ministry asking companies how many units they plan to buy and for what purpose. _Anyone tracking GPU hardware options for AI workloads can follow chip availability news on daily.dev._ ### Why did ByteDance and Tencent have to keep their Nvidia H200 chips in Hong Kong instead of mainland China? Even after the US cleared H200 sales to Chinese firms earlier this year, ByteDance and Tencent were instructed to keep the first shipments in Hong Kong rather than bring them into mainland China, reflecting ongoing restrictions layered on top of the US export approval. This reflects the complex overlapping controls from both US export policy and Beijing's own chip sourcing restrictions. _Developers working with GPU-dependent infrastructure can track export policy shifts affecting hardware access on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Report: China approves import of high-end Nvidia AI chips after weeks of uncertainty](https://daily.dev/posts/report-china-approves-import-of-high-end-nvidia-ai-chips-after-weeks-of-uncertainty-kdtg1bod1) · Ars Technica · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [China blocks NVIDIA’s RTX 5090D V2 imports while Jensen Huang was in Beijing](https://daily.dev/posts/china-blocks-nvidia-s-rtx-5090d-v2-imports-while-jensen-huang-was-in-beijing-l3igupkaa) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [US clears H200 sales to 10 Chinese firms, but not a single chip has shipped](https://daily.dev/posts/us-clears-h200-sales-to-10-chinese-firms-but-not-a-single-chip-has-shipped-ko5ngkoef) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#nvidia](https://daily.dev/tags/nvidia), [#alibaba](https://daily.dev/tags/alibaba) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/china-reportedly-may-let-alibaba-and-bytedance-buy-new-nvidia-chips-2rn307ea2) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"China reportedly may let Alibaba and ByteDance buy new Nvidia chips","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/china-reportedly-may-let-alibaba-and-bytedance-buy-new-nvidia-chips-2rn307ea2","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/china-reportedly-may-let-alibaba-and-bytedance-buy-new-nvidia-chips-2rn307ea2"},"datePublished":"2026-09-27T18:31:00.281Z","dateModified":"2026-09-29T00:25:07.589Z","description":"China's government reportedly signaled it may approve purchases of Nvidia's new RTX Pro 5500 workstation GPU by companies like Alibaba and ByteDance, according...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/cc74557d21886b556fcbccb4d36c2c97?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/cc74557d21886b556fcbccb4d36c2c97?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/china-reportedly-may-let-alibaba-and-bytedance-buy-new-nvidia-chips-2rn307ea2","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"nvidia,alibaba","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"China reportedly may let Alibaba and ByteDance buy new Nvidia chips"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/china-reportedly-may-let-alibaba-and-bytedance-buy-new-nvidia-chips-2rn307ea2#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is the Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 and how much memory does it have?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"The RTX Pro 5500 is a workstation graphics card built on Nvidia's Blackwell architecture, featuring 84GB of GDDR7 memory. 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