Nvidia Reportedly Gets Over $35B in RTX Pro 5500 Orders From China Tech Giants

Chinese technology companies ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent have reportedly placed orders worth over $35B for more than 3M Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 workstation GPUs, according to sources cited by Reuters. Two sources reported that the workstation cards are priced at around $11,400 each, though neither Nvidia nor the three Chinese companies have confirmed the orders on the record. Another source indicated that Nvidia informed its partners it may only be able to deliver enough units to meet between 5% and 10% of the demand, as the company is reportedly positioned to produce only 3M RTX Pro 5500 cards globally in 2027. The RTX Pro 5500 features the same number of CUDA cores as Nvidia's flagship RTX 5090 alongside 84GB of GDDR7 memory, and its export to China is not currently restricted by the US government, unlike Nvidia's enterprise H200 and B300 GPUs. "U.S. firms continue to be restricted by a combination of outdated U.S. export controls, which cover gaming products released nearly half a decade ago, and China's own limits on U.S. imports." — Nvidia spokesman