Taiwan's export orders rose 71.4% year over year to a record $102.96 billion in August, exceeding the existing 63.6% forecast and marking the 19th consecutive month of growth. Demand for AI infrastructure, high-performance computing and cloud service providers' self-developed ASIC chips drove electronic-product orders up 83.9% to $45.75 billion and information and communication product orders up 100.5% to $34.21 billion. Orders from the United States increased 88.9% to $42.13 billion, while ASEAN, China and Hong Kong, Europe and Japan also posted strong gains. January-to-August orders reached $704.99 billion, up 55.0%, already close to surpassing last year's full-year record of $743.73 billion. The Ministry of Economic Affairs projects September orders of $106 billion to $109.1 billion and said full-year orders could reach a record $1.1 trillion.