{"id":1009716,"date":"2026-05-25T09:04:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009716"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:14:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:44:04","slug":"ai-chip-demand-drives-6-growth-for-singapore-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/25\/ai-chip-demand-drives-6-growth-for-singapore-in-first-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"AI chip demand drives 6% growth for Singapore in first quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore&#8217;s economy grew 6% year-on-year in the first quarter as demand skyrockets for artificial intelligence chips, balancing the fallout from the Middle East war, the government said Monday. <\/p>\n<p>As a major electronics hub, the city-state has seen a significant increase in the production of memory chips and server components that are essential for the data centres that power AI tools. <\/p>\n<p>Due to the &#8220;better-than-expected&#8221; growth, the trade ministry said it would maintain its forecast for the economy to expand 2.0 to 4.0 percent in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore&#8217;s economy grew 6% year-on-year in the first quarter as demand skyrockets for artificial intelligence chips, balancing the fallout from the Middle East war, the government said Monday. As a major electronics hub, the city-state has seen a significant increase in the production of memory chips and server components that are essential for the data centres that power AI tools. Due to the &#8220;better-than-expected&#8221; growth, the trade ministry said it would maintain its forecast for the economy to expand 2.0 to 4.0 percent in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009742,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009716\/revisions\/1009742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}