China is considering allowing major technology companies to import more Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips, according to reporting cited by Ars Technica. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology reportedly asked Alibaba and ByteDance how many chips they want and how they plan to use them.
The RTX Pro 5500 is sold as a graphics product, but large quantities could be installed in servers for AI workloads. Any relaxation could create a meaningful new market for Nvidia while giving Chinese model developers access to more compute. The discussions have not produced a final policy, and US export rules remain a separate constraint.
The report follows a US-China summit that did not address chip controls and only extended a fragile trade truce for two months. Availability and geopolitics therefore remain unsettled. Companies cannot treat the regulator’s request for purchasing plans as approval; the practical change is that wider imports are under active consideration rather than clearly ruled out.