Nvidia has resumed manufacturing of its H200 chip variant designed to comply with U.S. export restrictions for China, CEO Jensen Huang said at a press conference. The company had stopped production of the H200 last year as regulatory obstacles in the U.S. and China increased, according to prior reporting at the time.
Huang said Nvidia has since secured U.S. government licenses to export the H200 and has taken orders for the device. Those developments prompted the company to begin reactivating production lines several weeks ago.
"Our supply chain is getting fired up," Huang said.
The H200 is derived from Nvidia's older Hopper architecture. Nvidia's broader financial projection for more than $1 trillion in revenue from its flagship Blackwell and Rubin AI chips by the end of 2027 does not incorporate sales of the China-targeted H200 variant, Huang said.
Blackwell and Rubin are described by the company as its primary AI processors, capable of training and running the large language models that power conversational systems such as ChatGPT. According to the company, Blackwell chips are available for purchase, while Rubin processors are in full production as next-generation units.
Huang's $1 trillion revenue estimate for Blackwell and Rubin explicitly omits a range of additional Nvidia products. The figure does not include the company's central processing units, its portfolio of networking chips, or future chips that will be based on technology Nvidia licensed from Groq. The projection also excludes a Rubin variant called Rubin Ultra.
In December, Nvidia reached an agreement to license technology from Groq and hired numerous executives from the startup. The details on how those licensed technologies and personnel will feed into future product revenue were not included in the $1 trillion estimate, per Huang's remarks.
While the company is moving to restart H200 production for China following license approvals and order intake, it is clear from Huang's remarks that those China sales are being treated separately from the flagship Blackwell-Rubin revenue forecast through 2027.