New Delhi, July 28 -- HONG KONG - Hong Kong has not shipped goods at this pace since 1984. The city's June export figures, released Sunday by the Census and Statistics Department, logged growth the territory has not seen in 42 years - a record driven not by manufactured goods, but by the insatiable movement of artificial intelligence hardware across Asia and the Pacific.

Total exports reached HK$641 billion in June, a 53.4 percent year-on-year jump that Bloomberg and the South China Morning Post both characterized as the strongest single-month performance in four decades. Goods bound for the United States more than doubled - a striking acceleration for a city that has spent the past two years absorbing the cost of escalating Washington-B...