All modelsMODEL / FRONTIER COVERAGERTX PRO 5500TYPEModelSIGNALS3FIRST SEENSep 27, 2026LAST SEENNov 4, 2026Recent signalsSources: Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and other Chinese AI companies ordered 6M Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips worth $70B, but expect only ~1% within four months (Bloomberg) Nov 4, 2026Sources: 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 (Reuters) Oct 20, 2026Sources: China's government asked Alibaba, ByteDance, and others to report on their plans to buy Nvidia RTX Pro 5500, saying it intends to approve the purchases (Qianer Liu/The Information) Sep 27, 2026RELATEDAI ChipsNvidiaAlibabaByteDanceTencentALL MODELSLATEST SIGNAL