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# Bloomberg: Chinese firms ordered 6M Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips worth $70B but expect about 1% within four months

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.

## 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.

## Your AI and this story

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## Sources

1. [Bloomberg: Nvidia China clients to get 1% of $70B of RTX chips ordered](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-04/nvidia-china-clients-to-get-1-of-70-billion-rtx-chips-ordered) (bloomberg.com, press)

## Changes

- 2026-11-04 (filed): Created

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- 2026-09-27: [The Information: China asks ByteDance, Alibaba and others for Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 purchase plans and signals approval](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-27-china-nvidia-rtx-pro-5500-purchase-plans/index.md)