Semiconductor company Nvidia Corp says it has secured a license from Washington to ship a small number of its less advanced H200 chips to customers in China. However, the United States firm has also stated that it is not including any China data-center revenue in its first-quarter sales outlook due to regulatory uncertainty.

During a post-earnings call on Thursday, Colette Kress, Nvidia's executive vice-president and chief financial officer, said that "while small amounts of H200 products for China-based customers were approved by the US government, we have yet to generate any revenue, and we do not know whether any imports will be allowed into China".

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According to its latest earnings release, Nvidia's revenue in China fell to $19.7 billion for the financial year ended January 25, down from $25 billion a year earlier.