A report published September 27, 2026, said Beijing was weighing whether to let ByteDance, Alibaba and other Chinese technology companies buy Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 cards. The proposed purchases would depend on Chinese import permission, a separate constraint from U.S. export controls on Nvidia chip sales to China.
What Beijing was reportedly considering
The reported possibility concerns permission to import Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 cards into China. Chinese import approval and U.S. export controls are distinct constraints on Nvidia chip sales to the country.
ByteDance's reported order plan
ByteDance was reportedly planning a prospective order of about one million RTX PRO 5500 cards. Some prospective buyers reportedly intended to integrate the cards into servers running AI models for customers.
Earlier reports involved Nvidia H200
A separate report published August 19, 2026, said ByteDance and Tencent had each received about 10,000 Nvidia H200 processors in recent weeks. Those reported shipments concerned the H200, a different Nvidia model from the RTX PRO 5500.
