Yiguo English held the Digital Time Capsule launch ceremony at the "AI Wave Star Show" Grand Finals, symbolizing the preservation of the children's dreams and aspirations for the future.

Yiguo English's annual brand event, "A Message to My Future Self — Unlock AI, Meet the Future Me," officially kicked off this year. The opening chapter, the "AI Wave Star Show," went through open auditions and intensive training before holding its Grand Finals and Awards Ceremony on the 6th. Centered on the theme of "conversing with your future self," the event combines all-English public speaking, AI creative tools, and stage performances — guiding children to draw from everyday observations, reflect on their relationship with the future world, and build confidence through creation and expression.

The launch press conference for the "2026 Hakka Fashion Awards" was held this morning (the 15th) at the "CORNER MAX Grand Corner Multi-Function Exhibition Hall." Wu Wen-De, Chairperson of the Hakka Affairs Commission of the Taipei City Government and CEO of the Taipei City Hakka Culture Foundation, remarked at the event: "This edition of the Hakka Fashion Awards takes inspiration from the works of the 'Hou Sheng Literature Award.' We sincerely invite fashion designers aged 18 and above to participate enthusiastically, combining literary elements with sustainable materials and upcycled fabrics to create garments that showcase the unique charm of urban Hakka culture in Taipei." This year's competition format breaks through the previous division between the student group and the open group for the first time, encouraging cross-generational design exchange. The finals and awards ceremony will be evaluated on-site by a professional judging panel, selecting 1 Gold Award, 1 Silver Award, 1 Bronze Award, 5 New Talent Awards, 2 Popularity Awards, and 1 Jury's Special Award. The grand prize carries prize money of NT$350,000, with total prize money exceeding NT$1 million. The submission period runs from today through May 10. Designers from all walks of life are warmly welcomed to register and jointly showcase the innovative flair of Taipei's Hakka fashion.

Fu Jen Catholic University faculty and students visiting 2025 Computex, hosted by colleagues from Inventec's Metaverse Technology Division

Amid the global wave of artificial intelligence reshaping the fashion industry, Fu Jen Catholic University has taken proactive steps to collaborate with leading technology brands NVIDIA, MSI, and Inventec’s VRSTATE platform. Together, they are building an AI-driven ecosystem for fashion design education and creative innovation, ushering in a new era for AI-powered fashion education in Taiwan.

Inventec, a major contract manufacturer, has taken another significant step forward in its virtual-physical integration technology! Recently, the team collaborated with group partners Inhon and Asia University to integrate their metaverse "Virtual-Physical Integration Space" with the cutting-edge "AI Virtual Human" technology and Inhon's self-developed comprehensive physiological measurement system "Family Treasure," successfully developing the latest "AI Virtual Health Manager" within the Virtual-Physical Integration Space. The team is further introducing it into dozens of care institutions participating in the USR project in the Greater Taichung area, striving to capture the vast business opportunities in smart healthcare through high-performance cloud-based care technologies.

[Reporter Liu Minjun/Taipei Report] The 2025 Spring/Summer Taipei Fashion Week was grandly launched a few days ago. Designer Gioia Pan, known as the "Knitting Queen", took the theme of "Time and Space Traces" this season, and continued to bring more new looks to her knitting techniques through paper cutting and stone carving art. Cheerleading goddess Lin Xiang and Olympic gold medalist Lin Yuting have transformed into fashion models to add starlight to the catwalk.

Lin Yuting (left) and Lin Xiang (right) walked the runway for "Knitting Queen" Gioia Pan. Provided by the brand

2025SS GIOIA PAN's new collection released This season's latest clothing works. Photo/provided by Gioia Pan

Gioia Pan, with her outstanding design talent, is known as the "Queen of Knitting" and has won the highest honor in Chinese fashion design, the "Golden Top Award". She has also appeared in Tokyo and New York Fashion Week many times. Her 2025 Spring and Summer series "Time and Space Traces" is inspired by natural landforms and stone carving art, and cleverly combines the delicate beauty of paper cutting with the power of historical flow. The series unfolds in the interweaving of time and space, outlining the intersection of the past and the future through distinct textures and colors. The ups and downs of the canyon, the eternity of stone carvings and the fleeting beauty of paper-cuts interweave to create a series of moving time and space silhouettes. These works not only show the infinite possibilities of clothing design, but also convey a unique charm of time travel. Each work incorporates the glory and tragedy of the years, highlighting the profound dialogue between history and modernity.

On September 10, 2024, Golden Summit Award winner and knitwear queen Gioia Pan released the 2025 Spring/Summer Haute Couture Collection at the Beijing China International Fashion Week. At the show, many celebrity friends of the brand showed up to support, and well-known artists such as Richie Jen, Peng Jiahui, and Hanggai Band appeared in the front row to watch the show, which was star-studded and attracted everyone's attention.

Inventec VRSTATE is the strategic partner of this event. It used Metaverse technology and artificial intelligence tools to produce live rendered digital images for the entire show, which matched the creativity of laser screens and time gates, creating a mysterious and futuristic atmosphere. It presented a magnificent auditory feast.

This series is themed "Time and Space Traces", inspired by the natural landforms, stone carving art and folk culture essence of northern Shaanxi, and consists of three series.

Inventec. Reporter Wu Kangwei / Photography

Chipmaker AMD has announced that it will set up a research and development center in Kaohsiung. Mayor Chen Chi-mai has also confirmed that AMD will settle in the Asia Bay area. Both sides hope to create an exclusive R&D base with packaging, high-speed transmission, and AI applications through expanded development in the local area. As a Taiwanese manufacturer and AMD's partner, Inventec (2356) also showcased its masterpiece of the "VRSTATE" technology, the "Metaverse Platform", in Kaohsiung Asia Bay on the 23rd. Whether the two sides will have more cooperation in Kaohsiung in the future has attracted market attention.

Lu Junwei (right), president of TAICCA, and Chiu Chaucer, director and senior vice president of the Metaverse Technology Department of Inventec Group, took a group photo.

In order to assist Taiwan's cultural and technological content industry and venue operators to jointly develop long-term performances and promote the implementation of cultural and technological content in the market, Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) has established cooperative relations with Inventec Group, AMBI SPACE ONE and Brogent respectively and signed the "Cooperation Agreement". TAICCA will cooperate with the cultural technology industry to jointly invest in content production resources, hoping to create an exemplary business verification demonstration case, encourage the technology industry and the content industry to continue to cooperate, and jointly seek a feasible business model.

With VRSTATE's metaverse technology, virtual digital courses can be created, multi-national languages can be converted simultaneously, and 3D exhibitions can be created, and learning methods are more diverse

At the COMPUTEX booth, Inventec showcased the "Metaverse Campus" in collaboration with Asia University, and Asia University President Cai Jinfa (third from left) took a group photo with teachers from Asia University and Lin Allen (third from right), Senior Manager of Inventec's Metaverse Technology Office. Photo/Courtesy of Asia University

COMPUTEX 2024 set off an AI boom, and the president of Asia University, Cai Jinfa, led a team to visit, and cooperated with Inventec to create a digital course with VRSTATE's metaverse technology, which can generate virtual teachers to teach classes with one click and convert them to multiple languages simultaneously, making it convenient for international students to learn.

The top secret of the king of AI, Nvidia Jensen Huang, is hidden in the Inventec exhibition area. Photo by Chen Liwen

With the blessing of Nvidia Jensen Huang, the godfather of AI, the number of people at the COMPUTEX exhibition has skyrocketed by 8 to more than 85,000 people, and when the spotlight in the exhibition hall is chasing the GB200 NVLink 72 AI cabinet of up to 5~6 million US dollars, no one has noticed that Huang has left a real "Top Secret" in the Inventec exhibition area! Inventec's P4000 is an MGX 4U rack server, which is not as powerful as GB200, but it is more in line with the needs of general enterprises and small and medium-sized cloud service providers (CSPs). In other words, NVIDIA's high-end and mainstream products have been prepared simultaneously.