The Hardware Ceiling: ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent Bet $35B on the RTX PRO 5500
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ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent have collectively placed orders for over 3 million export-compliant NVIDIA workstation GPUs, hitting a structural bottleneck where list-price demand doubles the global production cap. A Reuters report from October 20 reveals that at a combined list price exceeding $35 billion, this demand represents a massive capital commitment from China’s tech giants despite tightening international trade restrictions. The disparity between market appetite and manufacturing capacity defines the current bottleneck.
Source: Forkast
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