In the second quarter of 2026, Singapore found itself at the intersection of two great currents of our time — the relentless expansion of artificial intelligence and the global scramble to build the hardware it demands. The city-state's non-oil domestic exports surged 27.4 percent, carried almost entirely by an 88.1 percent leap in electronics, as chipmakers, data center builders, and cloud providers poured capital into the infrastructure of machine intelligence. Enterprise Singapore's figures were striking enough to prompt a sweeping upward revision to the country's full-year economic outlook