COPENHAGEN/STOCKHOLM, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Nvidia ( NVDA )

CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday a design flaw with its latest

Blackwell AI chips which impacted production has been fixed with

the help of longtime Taiwanese manufacturing partner TSMC

.

Nvidia ( NVDA ) unveiled Blackwell chips in March and had earlier

said they would ship in the second quarter but were delayed,

potentially affecting customers such as Meta Platforms ( META ),

Alphabet's, Google and Microsoft ( MSFT ).

"We had a design flaw in Blackwell," Huang said. "It was

functional, but the design flaw caused the yield to be low. It

was 100% Nvidia's ( NVDA ) fault."

According to media reports, the delay in production had

caused tensions between Nvidia ( NVDA ) and TSMC but Huang dismissed that

as "fake news".

"In order to make a Blackwell computer work, seven different

types of chips were designed from scratch and had to be ramped

into production at the same time," he said.

"What TSMC did, was to help us recover from that yield

difficulty and resume the manufacturing of Blackwell at an

incredible place."

Nvidia's ( NVDA ) Blackwell chips take two squares of silicon the

size of the company's previous offering and binds them together

into a single component that is 30 times speedier at tasks like

serving up answers from chatbots.

At a recent Goldman Sachs conference the CEO said the

chips will now ship in the fourth quarter.

Huang was in Denmark on Wednesday to launch a new

supercomputer named Gefion, which boasts 1,528 graphic

processing units (GPUs) and was built in partnership with Novo

Nordisk Foundation, Denmark's Export and Investment Fund and

Nvidia ( NVDA ).