{"id":15616,"date":"2025-06-23T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/?p=15616"},"modified":"2025-06-23T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:00:13","slug":"ai-hpc-demand-drives-22-3-surge-in-industrial-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/ai-hpc-demand-drives-22-3-surge-in-industrial-output\/","title":{"rendered":"AI, HPC Demand Drives 22.3% Surge in Industrial Output"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>According to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan\u2019s industrial production jumped 22.3% year-on-year in May, driven by strong demand for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The manufacturing production index rose 23.7%, marking its 14th straight month of growth. From January to April, industrial and manufacturing output grew 14.3% and 15.2%, respectively.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Semiconductor output surged 44.4%, fueled by demand for 12-inch wafers and chip packaging. Electronic component production rose 36.5%, while machinery and base metal production posted modest gains. However, flat panel output fell 4.1%, and auto production dropped 2.2% amid component shortages.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Growth is expected to continue, though front-loaded demand ahead of U.S. tariff reviews may taper, officials said.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan\u2019s industrial production jumped 22.3% year-on-year in May, driven by strong demand for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The manufacturing&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15618,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15616\/revisions\/15618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}