March 19 (Reuters) - Nvidia ( NVDA ) CEO Jensen Huang

said on Wednesday that the top four cloud service providers have

ordered as many as 3.6 million of its flagship "Blackwell"

graphics processors, and that the figure did not include orders

from Meta Platforms ( META ).

During a question-and-answer session with financial analysts

at the company's annual software developer conference in San

Jose, California, Huang said the 3.6 million orders

"under-represented the demand" since they excluded Meta, smaller

cloud providers and startups.

(Reporting by Max A. Cherney in San Jose, California and

Arsheeya Bajwa and Zaheer Kachwala in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil

D'Silva)