Chinese AI firms ordered 6M Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips worth $70B, expect ~1% delivery in 4 months
Bloomberg reports that Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and other Chinese AI companies have collectively ordered 6 million Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips, worth $70 billion, but expect to receive only about 1% of that order within the next four months. The report, citing sources, highlights the severe supply constraints facing Chinese AI developers for advanced Nvidia chips.
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Bloomberg : Sources: Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and other Chinese AI companies ordered 6M Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips worth $70B, but expect only ~1% within four months — Chinese AI developers expect to receive just a small fraction of the advanced Nvidia Corp. chips they've ordered over the next several months …
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