By Chen Cheng-hui
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The manufacturing sector’s fixed-asset purchases, excluding land, increased for the second straight quarter, as firms in the advanced semiconductor processing, memory, packaging and testing, and artificial intelligence (AI) server segments continued to expand production, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said in a report yesterday.Fixed assets include machinery, equipment, buildings and construction projects, as well as furniture, fixtures and vehicles.Purchases rose 53.7 percent year-on-year to NT$956.3 billion (US$30.31 billion) in the second quarter, the ministry said in a report.
Visitors watch a collaborative robot perform an automated screw-fastening demonstration during Semicon Taiwan in Taipei on Wednesday last week.
