Chinese Buyers Expect Just 1% of Ordered Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 Cards
Technology · First reported 4 Nov, 03:14 · Updated 03:49
Chinese companies reportedly ordered about 6 million Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 cards valued at roughly $70 billion, but expect only tens of thousands over the next four months. The reported shortfall is attributed to Nvidia’s difficulty increasing production; the order figures have not been confirmed by Nvidia or the buyers.
- Chinese firms reportedly ordered about 6 million RTX Pro 5500 cards worth around $70 billion, with Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance among the buyers.
- They expect to receive about 1% of the orders—some tens of thousands of cards—over the next four months, as Nvidia struggles to increase production.
- Nvidia and the buyers have not confirmed the reported order figures. The cards are sought for AI inference, according to the detailed report.
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- Reported orders
- About 6 million cards, valued at roughly $70 billion.
- Expected deliveries
- About 1% of orders, or some tens of thousands of cards, over four months.
- Named buyers
- Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance.
- Confirmation
- Nvidia and the buyers have not confirmed the order figures.
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- An earlier Lux headline reported RTX 5090 street prices above $9,000 as Nvidia GPU costs climbed. [be6eb189-e8a7-4a70-8cdf-f908781eba70]
- Another earlier Lux headline described an eBay listing for an AI supercomputer with 9,600 Nvidia A100 GPUs and 4,200 AMD EPYC CPUs. [26eaad1d-b990-4f3f-85bc-cba9d3a03e88]
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