Andy Cheng is 26, unemployed and, with the help of a little borrowed money, the proud owner of $60,000 worth of Taiwanese tech stocks.

And in many ways, he speaks for the entire island of 23 million people when he doles out the following advice: ¡°Buy any stock and you will make money.¡±

AI mania has gripped any number of stock markets across the globe in recent months ¡ª South Korea, China, the U.S. ¡ª but perhaps nowhere is it as frenzied as in Taiwan, the No. 1 producer of the chips that power the technology.