TAIPEI, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As Generative AI applications transition from the cloud to internal corporate environments, the demand for enhanced data security and localized performance continues to surge. Supported by the Taiwan-Japan Industrial Collaboration Promotion Office (TJIC) of the Institute for Information Industry, a strategic trio—Neuchips, Netiotek, and ShareGuru—has joined forces to launch an integrated on-premise AI solution.

This comprehensive package combines high-performance AI acceleration cards, industrial-grade edge computing servers, and sophisticated knowledge-based Q&A systems.

Triple Collaboration: Building the Foundation for Localized AI

This partnership integrates the core technologies of three industry leaders. The solution will be featured in-depth by the ShareGuru and Netiotek teams during the upcoming exhibition:

• Netiotek: Provides the NERMPC-265K, an industrial-grade edge computing platform. Renowned for its superior stability and thermal design, it serves as the ideal hardware foundation for long-term on-premise AI operations.
• ShareGuru: Provides an enterprise-level semantic document retrieval and Q&A system. Utilizing its core ShareQA technology, it transforms diverse corporate documents into a real-time, high-precision knowledge base.
• Neuchips: Provides AI inference acceleration cards specifically optimized for Transformer architectures. The low power consumption and ease of deployment significantly reduce the operational costs for enterprises adopting Large Language Models (LLMs).

Forward-Looking Strategy: Experience Today, Witness Tomorrow

“Neuchips is dedicated to breaking through computational bottlenecks. We have already begun planning our next-generation hardware solutions optimized for Generative AI,” a spokesperson stated. “By leveraging advanced architectures to support larger model configurations, we aim to comprehensively upgrade the processing speed and accuracy of on-premise inference. We cordially invite industry leaders to experience our first-generation solutions firsthand. Your feedback will be a vital reference as we refine our next-gen products.”

Exhibition Information

We invite you to experience the technical innovations of high-performance on-premise AI and engage with our team of experts at the event:

• Event:Japan IT Week (Embedded, Edge & IoT Computing Expo)
• Date: April 8 – April 10
• Location: Tokyo Big Sight, Japan

West Hall 3, 4F, W20-22 (TAIWAN TECH PAVILION)

About the Partners

• Netiotek: Specializes in robust edge computing for OT–IT connectivity, AIoT, and Local LLM.
• ShareGuru: An innovator in AI-driven knowledge management and semantic search technologies.
• Neuchips: A premier provider of energy-efficient AI ASIC solutions tailored for the generative AI era.

SINGAPORE, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MINK Design Pte Ltd, a commercial renovation contractor in Singapore, has announced the redesign of its company website to provide clearer information about its commercial renovation services and project workflow for businesses planning commercial renovation in Singapore.

The updated website introduces a more structured overview of the company’s commercial renovation services, allowing businesses to better understand the steps involved in a typical commercial renovation project. The redesign highlights the company’s work across commercial spaces such as offices, retail environments, clinics, and food-and-beverage establishments.

Across Singapore, companies undertaking commercial renovation projects are increasingly focused on improving functionality, customer-facing design, and operational efficiency within their business space. The redesigned platform aims to provide information about how commercial renovation services support these goals through practical planning, construction coordination, and compliance with local guidelines.

Updated Website Explains the Commercial Renovation Process

The redesigned site https://www.mink.sg/ outlines the typical renovation process involved in commercial renovation Singapore projects, beginning with an initial consultation where business owners discuss project scope, operational goals, and budget constraints.

From there, the process moves into space planning and layout planning, which help determine how the commercial space can be organised to support daily business operations. These stages are followed by construction coordination and finishing works, culminating in final handover once the renovation work is complete.

During commercial renovation, planning also involves reviewing permit applications, regulatory requirements, and compliance requirements that apply to work within commercial buildings. Renovation contractors must ensure adherence to safety regulations and safety standards, while coordinating schedules to reduce costly delays and maintain minimal disruption to ongoing operations.

Supporting Multiple Types of Commercial Renovation

The website redesign also highlights different types of commercial renovation undertaken by the company. These include commercial office renovation, restaurant renovation, clinic renovation, school renovation, and renovation works for retail stores.

Each industry presents different requirements. Clinic renovation and projects involving medical facilities may emphasise functional layouts and a calming environment, while restaurant renovation often focuses on operational flow and customer-facing design. Renovation of a retail shop or retail store may prioritise brand identity, customer flow, and an inviting atmosphere where impressions matter for visitors.

For businesses planning office renovation, design considerations may focus on layouts that help enhance productivity and improve overall workplace efficiency.

The redesigned website explains how careful planning and coordinated execution allow renovation contractors to manage these varied project requirements while ensuring each commercial renovation project runs smoothly.

Renovation Costs and Planning Considerations

The platform also provides general information about factors that may influence commercial renovation costs, including project scale, design complexity, and the square foot size of the commercial unit.

Businesses evaluating their commercial renovation cost in Singapore should consider the scope of renovation projects, material selection, and regulatory considerations. Early planning and coordination with renovation contractors can help align the renovation scope with operational timelines and financial considerations.

About MINK Design Pte Ltd

MINK Design Pte Ltd is an experienced commercial renovation contractor in Singapore providing commercial renovation services for businesses across the country. The company undertakes commercial renovation projects including commercial office renovation, restaurant renovation, clinic renovation, school renovation, and retail shop renovation.

Serving businesses across Singapore, the company works on commercial premises and commercial buildings, delivering services such as space planning, construction coordination, and reinstatement works. MINK Design supports businesses throughout the entire process of commercial renovation in Singapore, from planning and design through construction, completion, and post-renovation support.

Through its commercial renovation services, the company works with business owners to adapt existing commercial space, support operational changes, and bring new life to workplaces and customer-facing environments.

CONTACT: Maurice Mok, m.mok@mink.sg, +65 8866 6134

SHENZHEN, China, April 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On March 30, Delonix Group presented two new initiatives at its 2026 strategy conference: Genie AI, embedded in its Betterwood App, and a customer experience framework known as the Heavenly Stems & Earthly Branches Model.

Individually, they resemble product and service upgrades. Taken together, they suggest something more structural: an attempt to replace the logic on which the hospitality industry has operated for decades.

For most of its modern history, the sector has been governed by a simple equation—growth through physical expansion. More rooms, better locations, higher occupancy. Scale was both strategy and moat.

That equation is beginning to break.

Chairman Zheng Nanyan framed the shift not as cyclical, but structural. The convergence of maturing consumer expectations and rapidly deployable AI systems is eroding the effectiveness of asset-led growth. Standardization, once a tool for efficiency, now produces indistinguishable experiences. Capital intensity, long tolerated, is becoming a constraint. 

What is emerging in its place is not a more efficient version of the same model, but a different organizing principle altogether: demand, not supply, as the system’s point of origin.

From Capacity to Interpretation

In this emerging model, the central problem is no longer how to build and fill capacity, but how to interpret and respond to fragmented, real-time customer intent.

This is where Delonix is positioning Genie AI.

Unlike most applications of AI in hospitality—which tend to sit at the interface level—Genie AI is designed to sit in the middle of the system, between intent and execution. It does not simply respond to requests; it structures them.

A guest interaction—whether through app input or voice—is translated into a sequence of executable tasks, routed through a centralized decision layer, and distributed to the nearest available human resource, before feeding back into the system as data.

The technical architecture is not unprecedented. What is notable is the ambition to make it foundational.

If it works as intended, service ceases to be a function of individual responsiveness and becomes instead a property of the system itself. Variability, historically managed after the fact, is designed out at the level of coordination.

In that sense, AI is no longer augmenting service. It is defining its boundaries.

Standardization Was the Solution. Now It Is the Constraint.

The industry’s previous growth model depended on standardization: replicable rooms, predictable services, consistent delivery across locations. This enabled scale, but at the cost of differentiation.

As consumer expectations evolve, that trade-off is becoming less acceptable.

Delonix’s response is not to abandon standardization, but to layer variability on top of it—systematically.

The Heavenly Stems & Earthly Branches Model introduces a framework in which products and services are no longer fixed configurations, but evolving modules. Customer interaction becomes an input into how the product itself is iterated over time.

The implication is subtle but significant.

Hotels are no longer static assets with service attached. They become adaptive systems, where the product is continuously reshaped by usage.

For customers, this promises a form of progression—an experience that accumulates rather than resets. For operators and investors, it suggests a shift from one-off capital deployment to ongoing, incremental reconfiguration.

In both cases, the underlying assumption is the same: value is not embedded in the asset, but generated through interaction.

Control Shifts to the System Layer

What ties these elements together is not technology alone, but control.

In the traditional model, control resided in assets—ownership, location, physical scale. In the emerging model, it moves upward, into the system layer that interprets demand, allocates resources, and continuously adjusts the product.

This shift has implications beyond efficiency.

A system that can interpret intent, coordinate execution, and learn from outcomes begins to set the terms of competition. The advantage no longer lies in having more assets, but in having a better system for deciding how those assets are used.

In that sense, AI is not just infrastructure. It is governance.

An Industry at the Edge of Repricing

China’s broader push to integrate AI into industrial and consumer systems provides the backdrop for this shift. Policy frameworks such as the State Council’s “AI+” initiative are accelerating deployment, but the more consequential changes are happening at the level of business models.

Hospitality is one of the more exposed sectors.

As the marginal return on physical expansion declines, and as customer expectations become more fluid, the industry is moving toward a repricing of what constitutes value. Scale, once the primary moat, is becoming easier to replicate and harder to defend.

What replaces it is still being defined.

Delonix’s approach offers one possible direction: treating demand as a continuously generated input, and building systems capable of capturing and compounding it. Whether this model proves durable remains to be seen. But its premise is clear.

The future of hospitality may depend less on how hotels are built, and more on how they think.

About Delonix Group

Delonix Group is a leading international hospitality and experiential consumption group in the Asia-Pacific region. Ranked 14th globally, the Group partnered with Marriott International to launch the world’s first dual-branded luxury property: MajesTang Hotel • A Tribute Portfolio Hotel, while independently creating MaisonLee, a Tang-inspired premium business travel brand. As one of the first Chinese hotel groups to expand overseas, Delonix has established a presence in high-potential markets such as Japan and Indonesia, now spanning more than 200 cities worldwide. Its portfolio encompasses Swiss-Belhotel, Artotel, Model J, hotel MONday, and other brands, positioning the Group at the forefront of building a new generation global platform for high-end hospitality and culturally immersive travel.

Stable and sustainable operations at core of innovative C-suite training amid AI era

TAIPEI, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Deepening its corporate governance work, Hon Hai Technology Group (“Foxconn”) (TWSE: 2317) has named Michael Chiang its rotating Chief Executive Officer, assuming a key role that strengthens the bench for next generation leadership and raises global competitiveness at the world’s largest electronics manufacturer and leading technology solutions provider.

The transition reinforces the maturity of Foxconn’s C-suite-level talent cultivation and institutional innovation, while at the same time, underpins stable global operations and sustainable growth amid the challenges of the AI era. Chiang, who concurrently will continue to lead the Group’s business operation related to smart consumer electronics, takes the baton from Kathy Yang for a one-year term from April 1.

Foxconn Chairman Young Liu said: “The core of senior CEO training lies in direct involvement and hands-on problem-solving in management and operations. Through a continuous mindset of debugging and the construction of methodologies, we strengthen the Group’s operational foundations, while allowing talent development and system building to progress in parallel.”

In a handover ceremony this week, Chiang said: “We will continue to refine corporate governance and build expert-driven teams. Over the next year, I plan to focus on establishing a comprehensive and systematic body of know-how, centered on the real needs of business units. Through resource optimization and precise risk management, we aim to maintain our global leadership in competitiveness.”

Outgoing rotating CEO Yang said: “Trained to view the enterprise from a business-owner perspective, the invaluable experience gained through rotation does not remain personal, but is distilled into replicable methodologies, ultimately forming a management framework that supports long-term, stable development.”

During her tenure, Yang focused on operational rhythm and governance advancement, driving cross-unit collaboration and effective execution of key initiatives. Yang was honored in Fortune’s “100 Most Powerful Women Asia 2025” and, in 2026, Manufacturing Digital’s “Top 10: Women in Manufacturing“.

Chiang joined Foxconn in 1999. He was assigned to California in the early 2000s to oversee the Group’s personal computer business and, since then, has taken on greater responsibilities in ICT operations and key customer accounts. Chiang holds a Master’s degree from Claremont Graduate University in the US, specializing in human resource development and organizational strategy management.

About Foxconn here.

SHANGHAI, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Free tickets for 2026 Medtec open on April 1, 2026. Visitors who complete registration before August 31 can enter free of charge. As Asia’s Leading Medical Device Supply Chain Expo — From R&D to Commercial Manufacturing, 2026 Medtec will be held from September 1–3, 2026, at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC), Pudong, Halls N1–N4. On-site registration during the exhibition will incur a 100 RMB admission fee per person.

https://visitorreg.medteccn.com/medtec-en/?utm_medium=pressrelease&utm_source=prnewswire&utm_campaign=register_open&utm_content=en Visit the official website now to claim your free ticket and stay ahead in the industry!

Free Tickets Now Open (April 1 – August 31, 2026)

Free tickets are open through August 31, 2026, offering visitors a more efficient way to plan their visit to 2026 Medtec.

Early Registration Benefits:

• Free access (save up to 100 RMB per person)
• Support for international group registration
• Fast-track entry with no on-site queue
• Flexible visit scheduling

2026 Medtec Overview

Marking its 20th edition, Medtec continues to serve as a comprehensive platform across the full medical device R&D and manufacturing chain, with an exhibition area of 47,000 square meters, 1,100 exhibitors, and an estimated 93,000 visits.

The exhibition provides integrated solutions across R&D, prototyping, manufacturing, certification, mass production, OEM services, and CRO and CDMO capabilities. Exhibits span a wide range of categories, including materials, core components, electronic parts, optical components, surface processing, precision machining, automation equipment, packaging, sterilization, testing, and consulting services.

The exhibition will be organized across four halls at SNIEC, spanning N1-N4.The four halls are structured around key segments of the medical device supply chain, from materials and core components to manufacturing services and equipment.

Halls N1–N2 focus on Medical Materials & Core Components.

Hall N1 Highlights:

• Metal Materials and Their Components
• Orthopedic and Dental Implant Processing Zone
• Ceramics, Biomaterials, Glass, and Other Materials and Related Components
• Ultra-precision Laser Processing, Machine Tools and Additive Manufacturing

Hall N2 Highlights:

• Medical Rubber and Plastic Materials and Their Components
• Bonding Agents, Bonding Products
• IVD Reagents, Filtration, Intravenous Injection, and Laboratories
• Pipe Fittings and Extrusion
• Pharmaceutical Delivery Systems, Dressing Materials and Formulation Processing

Halls N3–N4 focus on Medical Manufacturing Service & Equipment.

Hall N3 Highlights:

• Plastic Film Molding Services and Equipment
• OEM/ODM Contract Manufacturing Services
• Medical Automation, Drive Control, Robotics, Smart Factory
• Pipe Fittings and Extrusion Equipment
• Surface Treatment

Hall N4 Highlights:

• Medical Packaging, Sterilization, Labeling, Cleanroom
• R&D and Design, Software Services, and Consulting Services
• Exhibition of Testing, Metrology, Inspection and Calibration Equipment and Supplies
• Integrated Service Area

Visitor Composition

Medtec’s core visitor base includes medical device manufacturers, supply chain companies, and import-export enterprises. Attending representatives span senior executives, directors, engineers, managers, supervisors, and specialists. Their responsibilities cover management, R&D and technical centers, process and manufacturing engineering, quality, supply chain and procurement, as well as regulatory affairs.

It also attracts professionals from hospitals, clinics, and public health institutions, including hospital administrators, department directors and deputy directors, attending physicians, and other healthcare personnel. In addition, researchers and professors from research institutes and universities in medical device-related fields are expected to attend, alongside investors and analysts from the healthcare sector.

2026 Medtec will continue to attract participation from the industry’s top buyer companies.

Conclusion

As a key platform for leading companies to launch new products and showcase cutting-edge technologies, Medtec brings together a full spectrum of materials, components, manufacturing equipment, and supporting services. It supports one-stop sourcing while helping global companies connect with the China market.

Free tickets for 2026 Medtec open on April 1 and close on August 31, 2026 — register in advance to secure free admission.

Media Contact

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Talia Li, talia.li@informa.com 

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