ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent place over US$35 billion worth of Nvidia chip orders

“BYTEDANCE, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia’s new RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards with a collective sticker price of over US$35 billion, two people familiar with the matter said, in a rush for a less powerful but export-compliant chip amid US restrictions on trade with China.“

Source: https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/co...og-quashes-grabs-acquisition-foodpanda-taiwan

Nvidia will be happy with this, RTX 5090 buyers, less so.

I'm sure the Chinese will figure out how to push those cards to 11.

The link seem to be about Taiwan stopping some consolidation in the Uber eat sector....

https://www.reuters.com/business/re...-billion-worth-nvidia-chip-orders-2026-10-20/

21,760, that the 5090 core counts... could be simply why it felt like there stopped making them, could have been a bunch of AIB not receiving them for them to fill orders like that.