Nvidia's Blackwell chips are finally shipping to customers, but reports suggested that Nvidia's relationship with TSMC might be under strain due to some Blackwell chip failures.

Huang acknowledged a design flaw in the Blackwell AI chips, but firmly placed the blame on Nvidia.

"A design flaw with its latest Blackwell AI chips which impacted production has been fixed with the help of longtime Taiwanese manufacturing partner TSMC," said Huang.

He added that while Blackwell was “functional, the design flaw caused the yield to be low. It was 100% Nvidia's fault.”

Instead of hindering Blackwell’s roll-out, “what TSMC did, was to help us recover from that yield difficulty and resume the manufacturing of Blackwell at an incredible pace.”

Huang dismissed reports of tensions as “fake news” and rumours that it was supposed to be looking to Samsung for future shipments were wrong.

Blackwell chips have already started shipping and are making their way into server racks and possibly the RTX 50-series graphics cards, such as the RTX 5090. These are expected to be some of the best gaming graphics cards upon release, likely in early 2025.