Chinese Firms Order 6M Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 Cards Amid Supply Crunch

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Major Chinese tech firms including Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance have ordered approximately 6 million Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 GPUs worth $70 billion, yet Nvidia can supply only about 1% within the next four months. Demand is driven by the card's compliance with US export limits and its 84GB GDDR7 memory, which enables single-card inference for 70B-parameter models. However, global production is capped at an estimated 3 million units in 2027 as TSMC capacity shifts to Rubin chips, creating a severe supply-demand gap.

LATEST/Major Chinese tech firms including Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance have ordered approximately 6 million Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 GPUs worth $70 billion, yet Nvidia can supply only about 1% within the next four months. Demand is driven by the card's compliance with US export limits and its 84GB GDDR7 memory, which enables single-card inference for 70B-parameter models. However, global production is capped at an estimated 3 million units in 2027 as TSMC capacity shifts to Rubin chips, creating a severe supply-demand gap.

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Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai)T2Nov 4, 20:33·85 pts
Chinese Firms Order 6M Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 Cards Amid Supply Crunch
- Top Chinese cloud providers have ordered ~6 million RTX Pro 5500 cards totaling $70B, with unit prices exceeding $11,000.
- The RTX Pro 5500 is favored for LLM inference due to its 84GB GDDR7 memory and export compliance, but short-term delivery covers less than 1% of orders.
- Global production is projected to cap at 3 million units in 2027 as TSMC prioritizes Rubin data center chips, leaving a massive unmet demand.
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