The Information: China is preparing to allow ByteDance and Alibaba to buy new Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 cards
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Chinese SI giants may get fresh Nvidia hardware in huge volumes: the compute race continues around the barriers.
China's Ministry of Industry asked ByteDance, Alibaba and other companies to send in their purchase plans for the RTX Pro 5500 and signaled it would approve them. It is a workstation card on the Blackwell architecture with 84 GB of memory, introduced in September; ByteDance is considering about a million units. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report, the companies and the ministry did not comment.
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