According to sources familiar with the discussions, the Chinese government is reportedly about to authorize several of its major technology companies, including ByteDance and Alibaba, to purchase the latest generation of Nvidia graphics cards, the RTX PRO 5500. This would be an important signal of openness to American chips, following ByteDance's and Tencent's purchase this summer of approximately 10,000 H200 chips. Alongside American export controls, which limit the sale of advanced chips to China, Beijing restricts their entry into its market by requiring authorization for each purchase in order to favor Chinese manufacturers, such as Huawei. The effectiveness of this strategy, however, remains limited: Chinese chips are not yet produced in sufficient quantity or performance to meet domestic demand, especially that of major players. Such an authorization would reflect a certain pragmatism on the part of the Chinese regime, which would amount to acknowledging the shortcomings of Chinese chips. Some Chinese buyers plan to integrate these Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 into servers to run AI models for their clients. ByteDance alone is reportedly planning to order about a million units, according to The Information. At the price practiced in China, such an order would represent 13 billion dollars, or the equivalent of two-thirds of Nvidia's sales to Chinese customers during the 2026 fiscal year, which ended in January. This decision would come only a few days after the state visit of Xi Jinping to Washington, following which few concrete announcements were made. Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, and Lisa Su, head of its competitor AMD, were among the few guests seated at the table of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping during the state dinner hosted at the White House on Thursday, September 24. Huang and Su are seeking to regain access to the Chinese market, largely closed by the export controls established by the Biden administration in October 2022 and maintained, or even tightened, by the Trump administration. Nvidia and AMD are also opposing bipartisan bills aimed at further restricting the sale of AI chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China. The Senate included them in July in its version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the fiscal year 2027. The official reports of the Trump-Xi summit do not mention American export controls, and Washington says they have been removed from trade negotiations. According to the U.S. representative for Commerce, Jamieson Greer, they had also not been discussed during the discussions on AI security between Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on September 20.