Chinese Tech Giants Reportedly Order $35B in Nvidia Export-Compliant GPUs

As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on October 20, 2026.

China demand for Nvidia silicon is still worth a reported $35 billion even after being pushed down to export-compliant parts, with ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent reportedly spoken for on RTX PRO 5500 GPUs.

CHINESE TECH GIANTS REPORTEDLY ORDER OVER $35B IN $NVDA AI CHIPS ByteDance, Alibaba $BABA and Tencent have reportedly placed orders for more than 3M Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 GPUs as U.S. export restrictions limit access to more advanced AI processors. The export-compliant chips cost https://t.co/spOHrXXTti
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Chinese AI demand is still flowing to Nvidia: ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent have reportedly ordered more than $35 billion of export-compliant RTX PRO 5500 GPUs. Keep an eye on the stock if Washington tightens rules on compliant parts.

Appetite for AI compute among China's largest tech firms remains intact even at the lower end of Nvidia's product stack.

The RTX PRO 5500 line gives Nvidia a legal path to capture that Chinese demand without running afoul of U.S. export rules.

Any move to tighten restrictions on export-compliant parts puts the reported order value back in question.

Mentioned: NVDA, BABA