Nvidia delivered a strong fourth quarter fiscal year 2026 earnings report and issued an optimistic forecast, driven by robust sales of its GB architecture AI servers. Notably, liquid cooling paired with the GB architecture has officially become a standard feature. Nvidia stressed that liquid cooling no longer poses a shipment bottleneck, dispelling earlier industry concerns sparked by CEO Jensen Huang’s CES remarks.

The Indonesian government’s move to cut nickel ore production from 2026 is expected to tighten raw material supply and weaken low-price competition from Chinese steelmakers, Walsin Lihwa said, adding that its Indonesian plant shipments remain unaffected.

Europe’s domestic battery sector is in a structural crisis, with high costs, technological shortfalls, and project delays eroding its ability to compete with Asian manufacturers.

Japan’s state-backed chip venture Rapidus announced on February 27 that it has secured a total of JPY267.6 billion (about US$1.7 billion) in new funding from both government and private-sector investors, marking a key step in its push to mass-produce 2nm logic chips by 2027.