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  "id": 10271314,
  "title": "China weighs allowing ByteDance, Alibaba to buy new Nvidia chips: The Information",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/china-weighs-allowing-bytedance-alibaba-to-buy-new-nvidia-chips-the-10271314",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-27T18:41:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Economic Times Tech",
    "slug": "economic-times-tech",
    "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/china-weighs-allowing-bytedance-alibaba-to-buy-new-nvidia-chips-the-information/articleshow/134525276.cms"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has asked companies including ByteDance and Alibaba to report their plans to purchase Nvidia's RTX PRO 5500 chips. According to The Information, the ministry has signaled that it intends to approve these purchases. The RTX PRO 5500 chip is a high-end professional computer chip.\n\nThe chip has 84 GB of GDDR7 memory and 21,760 CUDA cores, with a starting price above $6,000. It sits outside the data-center accelerator category that has been targeted by US export controls since October 2022.\n\nThe Chinese government has not officially commented on the matter, but an Nvidia spokesperson stated that US firms are restricted by a combination of outdated US export controls and China's own limits on US imports. Alibaba and ByteDance did not immediately respond to requests for comment.",
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        "outlet": "Investing.com",
        "title": "China weighs allowing ByteDance, Alibaba to buy new Nvidia chips, The Information reports",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/china-weighs-allowing-bytedance-alibaba-to-buy-new-nvidia-chips-the",
        "published": "2026-09-27T15:31:01.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Seeking Alpha News",
        "title": "China may allow Alibaba, ByteDance to buy Nvidia’s new RTX Pro 5500 chips",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/china-may-allow-alibaba-bytedance-to-buy-nvidias-new-rtx-pro-5500",
        "published": "2026-09-27T17:39:26.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Straits Times Business",
        "title": "China weighs allowing ByteDance, Alibaba to buy new Nvidia chips, report says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/china-weighs-allowing-bytedance-alibaba-to-buy-new-nvidia-chips",
        "published": "2026-09-27T17:43:38.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "CNBC",
        "title": "China weighs allowing ByteDance, Alibaba to buy new Nvidia chips, The Information reports",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/china-weighs-allowing-bytedance-alibaba-to-buy-new-nvidia-chips-the-10266241",
        "published": "2026-09-27T18:16:49.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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