Bloomberg: Chinese firms ordered 6M Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips worth $70B but expect about 1% within four months
Partly confirmed
The takeaway
Bloomberg reported on Nov 4, 2026 that Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance and other Chinese AI companies ordered about 6 million Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips worth $70B but expect only about 1% within four months.
Status
- Claim
Partly confirmed
- Our reporting
- Medium confidence
- Importance
- 2 of 5
- Last verified
- 4 November 2026
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Key facts
- ~6M chips, ~$70B ordered; ~1% expected within four months
What happened
Paywalled; from the Techmeme summary. Same week: Oracle reportedly dropped a $7B chip lease to Tencent under US pressure.
Sources
1 source from 1 site. Numbers match the chips in the text.
1 source: 1 press
Press
- Bloomberg: Nvidia China clients to get 1% of $70B of RTX chips orderedbloomberg.com, press
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