SINGAPORE, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a transformation of its kitchen, award-winning Modern Chinese restaurant Peach Blossoms at PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay, Singapore, welcomes guests back to home on Level 5. Marking this new chapter is the launch of the Black Pearl One Diamond Tasting Journey, an exclusive tasting menu inspired by the restaurant's prestigious recognition in the Black Pearl Restaurant Guide.
Led by Executive Chinese Chef Edward Chong, the new tasting menu is a celebration of Modern Chinese cuisine, thoughtfully woven with innovation and a deep respect for only the finest produce. Every course reflects the culinary philosophy that earned Peach Blossoms its coveted One Diamond accolade, showcasing sophisticated techniques and elegant presentation.
The eight-course journey begins with cold-brew red tea, made in-house with black tea harvested from ancient tea trees that are over 100 years old. Guests are then welcomed with an exquisite Hamachi, Scallion and Chicken Rice Tart, where delicate slices of fresh Hamachi crown a crisp golden shell filled with fragrant chicken rice, topped off with caviar for a luxurious, savoury finish. This is followed by an indulgent Bird's Nest, Squid Ink Pastry with Kaluga Queen Caviar, pairing snow crab, bird's nest, hairy and luffa gourd enveloped in a pastry, complemented by premium 15-year Kaluga Queen caviar infused with aromatic minced ginger. The menu continues with a nourishing Marble Goby in Hakka Wine Essence, where the fish is slowly simmered to create a naturally collagen-rich broth, finished with honey beans and fragrant Hakka rice wine.
The signature main dish presents Boston Lobster with Urban Farm Basil and Sticky Rice Cake, paying homage to the evolution of satay sauce. Confited in house-made lobster oil before being delicately char-grilled, the lobster is paired with a deeply flavourful sauce enriched with lobster broth, preserved radish and fresh basil harvested from the hotel's Urban Farm.
A refreshing interlude follows with Wine-infused Chilled Crab with Citrus and Kaluga Queen Caviar, featuring sweet hand-picked crab complemented by an aromatic Dongqu wine jelly infused with aged tangerine peel, spices and sour plum, to awaken the palate.
The culinary journey concludes on a comforting note with Crab Claw with Fermented Soy and Crisped Grain, inspired by the Hakka tradition of spicy fermented black bean flavours. Stuffed with Kurobuta pork and prawn mousse before being served atop crisped rice, the dish offers an elegant balance of savoury richness, sweetness and texture. Wuyi Oolong Tea, Monkfruit Jelly and Sesame, provides a sweet finale, celebrating the timeless pairing of premium tea with Chef's signature Peanut Ball.
Available at S$268++ per person (minimum two diners), the Black Pearl One Diamond Tasting Journey also includes 2 packets of Chinese tea for guests to bring home.
With the restaurant's return to Level 5 and the debut of the Black Pearl One Diamond Tasting Journey menu, Peach Blossoms invites diners to rediscover Modern Chinese cuisine through an immersive experience where culinary mastery and innovation come together in every course.
About Peach Blossoms
Peach Blossoms exudes a fresh and contemporary energy, serving modern Chinese cuisine with influences from Southeast Asia. With premium seasonal produce, masterful culinary techniques and artful presentation, award-winning Executive Chinese Chef Edward Chong breathes life into one of Singapore's top Chinese restaurants, earning acclaim by food connoisseurs and the elite business community alike.
As one of Singapore's highly lauded Chinese chefs, renowned for redefining Chinese cuisine with his own innovative and contemporary interpretation, Chef Edward's story is one of transformation and dedication, from a novice to a culinary virtuoso, who now entices diners from across the globe with his modern Chinese cuisine. Under his leadership, Peach Blossoms has won numerous recognitions, including the One-Diamond Restaurant Award in the 2026 Black Pearl Restaurant Guide, Tatler's Singapore's Top 20 Restaurants Award, Diamond Restaurant rating in Trip.com's Gourmet List, and attaining #78 in the coveted Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 51-100 Extended List 2026.
More information on Peach Blossoms here: Top Chinese Restaurant Singapore | Peach Blossoms Restaurant
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Cuisine: Modern Chinese
Address: PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay, Singapore (Level 5)
6 Raffles Boulevard, Singapore 039594
Contact: +65 6845 1118 | peachblossoms.prsmb@parkroyalcollection.com
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A NEW CHAPTER BEGINS: PEACH BLOSSOMS RETURNS TO LEVEL 5 WITH THE DEBUT OF ITS BLACK PEARL ONE DIAMOND TASTING JOURNEY
A NEW CHAPTER BEGINS: PEACH BLOSSOMS RETURNS TO LEVEL 5 WITH THE DEBUT OF ITS BLACK PEARL ONE DIAMOND TASTING JOURNEY
A NEW CHAPTER BEGINS: PEACH BLOSSOMS RETURNS TO LEVEL 5 WITH THE DEBUT OF ITS BLACK PEARL ONE DIAMOND TASTING JOURNEY
Built on a 5-nanometer process, the new SoC is designed to support models in the 100 billion parameter class, with full-stack software for private and responsive AI agents at the edge
SINGAPORE, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Acrab, a technology company building agentic AI compute infrastructure for the next generation of intelligent systems, today unveiled GΞLIX 1, its first-generation edge AI system-on-chip (SoC), together with Agent Box, a personal edge AI system powered by the company's full-stack computing platform.
As AI moves from generating answers to completing tasks, agents increasingly need to understand context, remember preferences and coordinate tools and devices in real time. Running these capabilities locally can produce faster responses, keep sensitive information under the user's control and maintain core functions when cloud connectivity is limited.
For years, models in the 100 billion parameter class have required cloud infrastructure. GΞLIX 1 is designed to bring state-of-the-art AI models at this scale into locally operated edge systems. Powered by GΞLIX, Acrab's Agent Box is a high-performance personal edge AI center designed to put AI agents into action in a more personal and customized way, with local large model inference, persistent memory, multimodal interactions and agent orchestration capabilities.
By replacing cloud AI's recurring token-fees per use, Agent Box is a one-time investment with long-term value, hence relieving users' token anxiety, and allowing AI to move from an occasional tool into an always-available assistant woven into everyday work and life.
"Generative AI helped people find answers. Agentic AI will help them get things done," said Dr. Ken Phua, CEO of Acrab. "Running models in the 100 billion parameter class on a system small enough to sit on a desk presents a significant computing challenge. GΞLIX 1 is designed to deliver the performance, memory bandwidth and responsive local inference required, while Agent Box shows how that capability can become a complete user experience."
A private AI center built for everyday life
Agent Box is designed as a private, always-on AI center for personal workspaces and homes. It keeps intelligence close to the people, information and physical environments it serves, while showing how device makers can turn Acrab's computing platform into complete agentic AI experiences.
For decades, personal computing advanced in predictable steps: faster processors, larger screens, more storage. Agent Box represents something else entirely—the first system designed not to run programs, but to host intelligence.
Agent Box brings together local language and vision model inference, multimodal interaction, persistent memory and an orchestration layer that can understand goals, break tasks into steps and coordinate action across agents, systems and connected devices. Users' data and memories remain private and stored locally on the device, while the system grows more capable and customized as the context deepens and memories accumulate. Acrab designed the compute architecture from the ground up to achieve optimal local AI performance, usability, cost efficiency, and power efficiency within one device.
A purpose-designed SoC for large model inference at the edge
GΞLIX 1 is built on a 5-nanometer process and is Acrab's first SoC designed specifically for edge AI. Rather than relying on separate compute components, it integrates CPU, GPU and NPU resources with a unified memory architecture engineered for large AI models and agentic workloads.
The SoC features a 20-core Arm CPU, multicore NPU acceleration and 273 GB/s of unified memory bandwidth. It is designed to support local deployment of open-source models in up to the 100 billion parameter class, with coordinated execution across CPU, GPU and NPU resources. Supporting models at this scale locally places substantial demands on computing performance, memory bandwidth and power efficiency.
GΞLIX 1 is engineered for rapid responses at power levels suitable for systems that remain active throughout the day. A central design goal was reducing the delay before a model begins to respond, particularly with long prompts and large context windows.
In company testing, GΞLIX 1 achieved a prefill rate of 1416.8 tokens per second under a Gemma 26B A4B configuration with a 40K KV cache and a 10K token input, compared with 188.9 tokens per second on Mac Mini M4 Pro, representing up to 7.5X faster prefill performance. These capabilities turn a single chip into a versatile supercomputing platform for a wide range of applications.
A full-stack platform, from silicon to applications
Beyond the SoC, Acrab has built the software and system layers needed to turn local model inference into working agentic products. These include an optimized runtime and developer toolchain, agent operating system capabilities, reference designs and applications that help devices understand context, retain memory and coordinate real-world action.
Agent Box is the first expression of Acrab's broader ambition to provide a horizontal computing foundation for agentic AI across a wide range of edge devices and intelligent systems.
Processing a substantial share of AI workloads locally can reduce dependence on metered cloud inference, lower recurring processing and data transfer costs, and avoid the delay involved in sending every interaction to a remote service. Cloud resources can still be used when a task requires them, allowing developers to choose the right balance between local and cloud execution.
Building a broader edge AI device ecosystem
Acrab plans to work with device manufacturers and developers to bring its computing platform into products including AI NAS systems, AI PCs, smart vehicles, and industrial and service robots.
Agent Box demonstrates how Acrab's silicon and software can be integrated into a complete product experience. The company aims to provide a complete set of compute platform and agent-native infrastructure for the next generation of AI transformation across industries. By combining custom AI silicon, full-stack software, and reference designs of agents for use scenarios, Acrab enables industry partners and developers to bring intelligent AI products to market faster.
"Our goal is to give device makers and developers the foundation to bring agentic intelligence into many different products and environments," Dr. Phua said. "Agent Box demonstrates what the technology can do today, while GΞLIX 1 and our full-stack platform are designed to support a much broader ecosystem of devices and applications."
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About Acrab
Acrab is a technology company building agentic AI compute infrastructure for the next generation of intelligent systems. Founded in 2024, the company develops high-performance AI compute architecture and integrated software platforms designed to bring AI agents into action, providing personalized assistance and real-time execution across a range of edge environments.
By combining purpose-designed silicon, advanced edge AI models, full-stack software and system orchestration, Acrab provides the computing foundation for AI agent systems across everyday life, bringing assistance, creativity, utility and value.
In June 2026, Acrab announced that it had received over US$350 million in cumulative financing from global venture capital firms and strategic industry investors, including early backers Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, Vertex Growth, and K3.
For more information about Acrab, please visit https://www.acrab.ai/.
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Acrab Unveils GΞLIX 1 SoC and Agent Box, Bringing State-of-the-Art AI to the Edge
Acrab Unveils GΞLIX 1 SoC and Agent Box, Bringing State-of-the-Art AI to the Edge
