{"id":18336,"date":"2026-06-16T23:32:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/?p=18336"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:32:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:32:43","slug":"taiwan-industrial-output-rises-on-ai-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/taiwan-industrial-output-rises-on-ai-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Industrial Output Rises on AI Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Taiwan\u2019s industrial production index rose 14.16% year-on-year to 125.63 in April, supported by strong demand for AI infrastructure, servers, and advanced semiconductors, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>The manufacturing production index, which accounts for the majority of industrial output, increased 15.13%, marking its 26th consecutive month of growth. Computer-related products\u2014including servers, switches, semiconductor inspection equipment, and optoelectronics\u2014led gains with an 85.4% increase, while electronic component output rose 11.47%, driven by demand for advanced wafers and memory chips.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Traditional industries also showed signs of improvement. Machinery equipment production grew 9.69%, while base metal output increased 2.08% on stronger restocking demand. However, chemical materials output declined 10.01%, and auto parts production fell 2.93% amid weaker overseas demand and inventory adjustments.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>For the first four months of the year, industrial production rose 21.13% and manufacturing output increased 22.71%. The ministry said it remains optimistic about the outlook, citing continued growth in high-performance computing and AI-related products.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s industrial production index rose 14.16% year-on-year to 125.63 in April, supported by strong demand for AI infrastructure, servers, and advanced semiconductors, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs. The&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18312,"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\/18336"}],"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=18336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18338,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18336\/revisions\/18338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}