https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/china-weighs-allowing-purchases-of-new-nvidia-chips-by-bytedance-alibabaContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/china-weighs-allowing-purchases-of-new-nvidia-chips-by-bytedance-alibabahttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/china-weighs-allowing-purchases-of-new-nvidia-chips-by-bytedance-alibaba#u93626Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:43:56 +0000China's government is considering allowing domestic companies like ByteDance and Alibaba to purchase Nvidia's new RTX Pro 5500 chips, built for high-end professional computers. This comes as China's AI firms face a shortage of computing power to run their chatbots and agents. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently asked these companies to report their plans for buying the chips.Why it mattersThe potential approval would mark a significant development in the ongoing tech dynamics between China and the US. Nvidia, a leader in AI computing hardware, had faced