Amazon says it has not halted any Nvidia chip orders

Attendees at Amazon.com Inc annual cloud computing conference walk past the Amazon Web Services logo in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., November 30, 2017. REUTERS/Salvador Rodriguez/File Photo

(Reuters) -Amazon.com's cloud services unit said on Tuesday that it has not halted any orders of Nvidia's most advanced chip on the market, but has instead decided to purchase the company's newer state of the art chip for an upcoming supercomputer project between the companies.

Earlier, the Financial Times had reported that Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world's largest cloud services firm, had "fully transitioned" its previous orders for Nvidia's Grace Hopper chip to its newer Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs), that Nvidia announced in March.