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      "date": "2026-09-06",
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          "quote": "The New York Times reported on Sunday that Aivres, a California-based server maker, exported at least $5.6 billion in advanced technology to Southeast Asia between April 2024 and February 2026, including more than $3 billion in computers equipped with Nvidia’s most advanced Blackwell chips."
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      "date": "2026-09",
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      "title": "China's industry ministry seeks RTX PRO 5500 purchase plans",
      "summary": "Reuters reported that China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology asked ByteDance, Alibaba and other companies to report plans to purchase NVIDIA RTX PRO 5500 chips. The report described the request as recent and did not establish a precise date.",
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          "published": "2026-09-27",
          "quote": "China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently asked companies including ByteDance and Alibaba to report their plans to purchase Nvidia's RTX PRO 5500 chips, according to the report."
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      "date": "2026-08-19",
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      "title": "The FT puts about 10,000 H200s each with ByteDance and Tencent, and Beijing steering the rest to Hong Kong",
      "summary": "The Financial Times reported, citing two people with knowledge of the matter, that ByteDance and Tencent had each taken delivery of roughly 10,000 H200 accelerators, the first meaningful movement of the chips into mainland China since the December 2025 approval. Beijing wanted most of each company's licensed allowance, which the FT put at up to 100,000 units apiece, kept off the mainland, with regulators directing buyers to Hong Kong instead. Reuters said it could not immediately verify the report.",
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          "published": "2026-08-18",
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          "quote": "ByteDance and Tencent have each taken delivery of roughly 10,000 Nvidia H200 accelerators in recent weeks, the Financial Times has reported, citing two people with knowledge of the matter, a development that would mark the first meaningful movement of the chips into mainland China since President Trump approved their export last December."
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          "quote": "Beijing wants most of each company's U.S.-licensed allowance, which the FT puts at up to 100,000 units apiece, kept off the mainland, with regulators directing buyers toward Hong Kong instead."
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      "date": "2026-05",
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          "quote": "Despite U.S. approval, deals have stalled, as Chinese firms pulled back after guidance from Beijing, one source said."
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      "date": "2026-01",
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      "title": "Reuters reports Chinese approval for over 400,000 H200 chips",
      "summary": "Reuters reported that ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent had been approved to purchase more than 400,000 H200 chips in total. The report described the approvals as conditional and cited anonymous sources.",
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          "quote": "ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have been approved to purchase more than 400,000 H200 chips in total, with other firms now joining a queue for subsequent approvals, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity."
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      "date": "2025-09-17",
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      "title": "Beijing orders Alibaba, ByteDance and others not to buy Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D",
      "summary": "The Financial Times reported, and The Register relayed, that the Cyberspace Administration of China had\nordered Alibaba, ByteDance and other companies not to order Nvidia's China-specific RTX Pro 6000D\nBlackwell GPU.",
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          "quote": "China's Cyberspace Administration ordered Alibaba, ByteDance, and unnamed others not to order Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D Blackwell GPUs, unnamed sources familiar with the matter told the Financial Times this week."
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      "date": "2023-08-10",
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      "title": "China's internet giants order US$5 billion of Nvidia chips before feared new controls",
      "summary": "The Financial Times reported that Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba had ordered about 100,000 A800\nprocessors worth US$1 billion for delivery that year, and a further US$4 billion of GPUs for 2024, rushing to\nsecure supply amid fears of further U.S. export controls. Demand for the compliant part was intact two months\nbefore the October 2023 rules removed the test it was designed around.",
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