🇨🇳China reportedly considers approving NVIDIA RTX Pro 5500 GPU purchases by Alibaba (阿里巴巴) and ByteDance (字节跳动).

According to a Telegram summary of The Information, Chinese authorities have signaled that companies including Alibaba (阿里巴巴) and ByteDance (字节跳动) may be permitted to purchase NVIDIA’s new RTX Pro 5500 graphics processing unit (GPU). The report describes the product as a high-end graphics processor released during September.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) reportedly asked some companies to submit their purchasing plans. Requested information included the number of chips they intended to buy and their intended uses.

The ministry reportedly told some companies that it intended to approve those purchases, but the supplied material does not establish that final approvals or purchases have occurred. It gives no approved quantities, contract values, delivery schedules or deployment configurations.