# Chinese AI firms ordered 6M Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips worth $70B, expect ~1% delivery in four months, sources say

Digest AI · Hardware & Compute · published 2026-11-04T05:55:00Z

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## Summary

Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance and other Chinese AI companies have placed orders for about 6 million Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips valued at roughly $70 billion, according to sources cited by Bloomberg. The buyers expect to receive only around 1% of those chips within the next four months.

The report does not name the sources or specify which other companies are involved. Nvidia and the Chinese firms have not publicly confirmed the order volumes or the delivery timeline.

## Key points

- Chinese AI firms ordered ~6M Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips worth ~$70B, Bloomberg reports
- Buyers expect only ~1% of chips delivered within four months, sources say
- Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance named among the ordering companies

## Why it matters

The gap between ordered and deliverable high-end GPUs shows how export controls and supply limits constrain Chinese AI development at scale.

## Sources

1. [Sources: Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and other Chinese AI companies ordered 6M Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips worth $70B, but expect only ~1% within four months](https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-04/nvidia-china-clients-to-get-1-of-70-billion-rtx-chips-ordered) (bloomberg.com, 2026-11-04)

## Cite

Digest AI, "Chinese AI firms ordered 6M Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips worth $70B, expect ~1% delivery in four months, sources say", 4 November 2026, https://digestai.news/story/chinese-ai-firms-ordered-6m-nvidia-rtx-pro-5500-chips-worth-70b-expect

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