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May 21 (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices ‌said on ‌Thursday it would ​invest more than $10 billion across Taiwan's AI ecosystem ‌and ⁠widen strategic partnerships as it ⁠looks to expand its ​manufacturing ​capabilities. The ​U.S. chip ‌firm will collaborate with Taiwanese firms ASE and SPIL to develop ‌more power-efficient ​technology ​for ​AI systems ‌and processors, it ​said ​in a statement. (Reporting by ​Ananya ‌Palyekar in Bengaluru; ​Editing by ​Mrigank Dhaniwala)

May 21 (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices said ⁠on ⁠Thursday it would ⁠invest more than $10 billion in Taiwan's AI sector ​to deepen strategic partnerships and boost its capacity to build ‌and assemble advanced AI ‌chips. Analysts and investors see AMD as a leading challenger ⁠to ⁠Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market. Here are some details: • ​The U.S. chipmaker said it will collaborate with Taiwanese chip packaging and testing provider ASE and its unit SPIL to ​develop more power-efficient technology for AI systems and processors. • The ⁠new power-efficient ⁠technology will support ⁠AMD's ​Venice CPUs, which are being built on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co's (TSMC) ​advanced 2 nanometer ⁠process technology. • AMD said it was also working with Taiwanese partners including PTI, Sanmina, Wiwynn, Wistron and Inventec. • "As AI adoption accelerates, our global customers are rapidly scaling AI ⁠infrastructure to meet growing compute demand," AMD CEO Lisa Su said. • "By ⁠combining AMD leadership in high-performance computing with the Taiwan ecosystem and our strategic global partners, we are enabling integrated, rack-scale AI infrastructure that helps customers accelerate deployment of next-generation AI systems," she added. • Taiwan plays a pivotal role in the global AI supply chain for companies including Nvidia and Apple . Its position ⁠is anchored by the world's largest contract chipmaker, TSMC. • In a separate statement, AMD also said that it had started ramping up production of the Venice ​CPUs. (Reporting by Ananya Palyekar in Bengaluru; Editing by ​Mrigank Dhaniwala and Sherry Jacob-Phillips)

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A kickboxing world champion attempts to dethrone boxing's unified heavyweight king at the foot of the Pyramids of Giza - it sounds like the plot of Hollywood's latest blockbuster movie. But there is nothing scripted about Oleksandr Usyk's WBC title defence against boxing novice Rico Verhoeven in Egypt on Saturday. This is boxing's new normal, where the lines between fantasy and reality have shifted. The storyline offers intrigue: two dominant figures from different combat sports disciplines - but the outcome should be a routine win for heavyweight boxing's generational great Usyk. From inside his training camp in Spain, Usyk told BBC Sport a career in acting could be on the cards when he finally hangs up his gloves, but he feels he still has unfinished business in the ring. "I will not stop my career after I fight Rico - I have two, maybe three, fights more," Usyk said. "I build a plan in future for this fight - I have a secret plan. I want to build a business - this is one of my last fights, but I build [a] big show."

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The all-female track meet Athlos will head to London for the first time in 2026 as it expands to a two-day event - and its founder hopes the competition can become the "Formula 1 of track and field". Created by Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder and husband of tennis' 23-time Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams, Athlos will also be held in New York for a third consecutive year. In addition to a prize pot of $2.1m (£1.5m), athletes will be offered equity in the league - the idea being that they will be rewarded if it is successful. American stars Sha'Carri Richardson, Gabby Thomas, Tara Woodhall-Davis, Masai Russell and Dominican sprinter Marileidy Paulino have so far been confirmed for the events at the StoneX Stadium in Barnet, home of rugby union side Saracens, on 18 September and the Icahn Stadium in New York two weeks later. "I've long been very obsessed with this 'F1 for track and field' analogy. We come to expect the fastest cars in the world to tour the greatest global cities, and for people to come out and watch and celebrate this excellence," Ohanian told BBC Sport. "I envision Athlos to be a version of that and, as we grow this league, I'd love to add more cities and make Athlos truly global. "Whatever we do, we're going to do it with our athletes as partners - but our ambition is big. I don't see any reason why Athlos can't be a mainstay of the sporting calendar."

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(RTTNews) - AMD (AMD) announced that its next-generation AMD EPYC processor, codenamed Venice, is ramping production in Taiwan on TSMC's advanced 2nm process technology, with future plans to ramp production at TSMC's Arizona fabrication facility. Venice is a first high-performance computing product to enter production on TSMC's advanced 2nm process technology. AMD also plans to extend TSMC 2nm process technology across its data center CPU roadmap with Verano, a 6th Gen EPYC processor optimized for performance-per-dollar-per-watt leadership. Designed to support cloud and AI computing workloads, Verano is expected to build on the AMD EPYC platform with advanced memory innovations, including LPDDR. Separately, AMD announced more than $10 billion in investments across the Taiwan ecosystem to expand strategic partnerships and scale advanced packaging manufacturing for next-generation AI infrastructure. The company is collaborating with Taiwan-based ASE and SPIL, as well as other industry partners, to develop and qualify next-generation wafer-based 2.5D bridge interconnect technology. AMD noted that it has achieved a major milestone with PTI by qualifying the industry's first 2.5D panel-based EFB interconnect. At last close, AMD shares were trading at $447.58, up 8.1%. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.

Packed with gossip and incident, this book is also a fascinating study in the gestation of genius Among the many great pleasures of Daniel Okrent’s new biography of Stephen Sondheim – a book perfectly weighted between the gossipy and erudite – is its rendering of the milieu beyond its immediate subject. You come for the biography and stay for the world of mid-20th-century New York, in which Leonard Bernstein says terrible things about Sweeney Todd (“disgusting”), Sondheim says terrible things about Barbra Streisand (“doesn’t have one sincere moment left inside her”), and Arthur Laurents says terrible things about everyone. In the early 2000s, during a particularly poisonous exchange of letters between Laurents and Sondheim, the latter told his old collaborator, “you’re just good enough to know you’re mediocre”. The entire book is sheer delight and Okrent, formerly an editor at the New York Times and a baseball fanatic who effectively invented the modern fantasy baseball league, does a terrific job of telling Sondheim’s life story alongside shrewd analysis of his body of work. We meet Sondheim’s mother, known as Foxy, whom the writer and composer made an elaborate play of hating his entire life and who Okrent brings to life in order to get behind that particular performance. Continue reading...

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It is the end of an era for Football Focus. The longest-running football magazine show in the world comes to an end this Sunday after 52 years. Launched in 1974, Football Focus has provided fans with interviews, analysis and stories from across the game every lunchtime before the weekend's fixtures begin. With the final show approaching, we have selected some of our favourite moments and are giving you the chance to vote for which one you'd like to see in the final episode. See the options below, and vote for your favourite at the bottom of this page. Watch the final Football Focus this Sunday from 12:00 BST on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app.

Alibaba Group Holding’s heavy investments in artificial intelligence have moved beyond the “initial” phase and entered “full-scale commercialisation”, the Chinese e-commerce and cloud computing giant says in a shareholder letter as it doubles down on AI as its next major growth engine. “We expect the addressable market for companies like Alibaba that provide full-stack AI capabilities is poised to grow exponentially,” chairman Joe Tsai and CEO Eddie Wu Yongming said in a joint shareholder letter issued on Wednesday. “Today, we stand at a critical inflection point in the development of artificial general intelligence.” Advertisement The letter underscored Alibaba’s efforts to position itself as China’s leading full-stack AI provider . Its ecosystem spans the entire AI life cycle, from its proprietary T-Head chips and cloud infrastructure to model-as-a-service platforms and Qwen foundation models. Consumer-facing products include the Qwen app and the Wukong enterprise agentic AI platform. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. Advertisement “What we’re building is China’s AI factory,” said Liu Weiguang, senior vice-president of the cloud computing unit, at Alibaba’s cloud summit in Hangzhou on Wednesday.

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A Chinese woman developed an eight centimetre throat ulcer after eating hotpot too quickly, prompting her doctor to warn about the risks of such behaviour. The 42-year-old, surnamed Wang, from Changsha in central China’s Hunan province, was diagnosed with an oesophageal ulcer after gulping down the food. She said she was too “hungry and carried away” while chatting with friends over hotpot on a cool day in March. Advertisement She did not wait for the food to cool down after taking it from the pot, and swallowed it straight away. An endoscopy examination photograph shows the extent of the damage done to Wang. Photo: Sina Wang felt tightness in her chest at that moment and gulped iced water to comfort it. She felt better and did not take the situation seriously.

South Korea will cut its debt issuance in June, the finance ministry said, as the government steps up its defense of the bond market. Other steps include measures to boost foreign inflows linked to Korea’s inclusion to FTSE Russell’s World Government Bond Index and the promotion of the so-called Reshoring Investment Accounts , according to an emailed finance ministry statement on its cabinet meeting briefing agenda Wednesday. South Korea’s government bonds have lost 6.9% this year excluding currency fluctuations, the worst among 44 markets tracked by Bloomberg. A global semiconductor boom is supercharging the nation’s economic growth and adding to inflationary pressures, with analysts expecting the Bank of Korea to sound more hawkish in its policy meeting next week. Ten-year bond yields declined five basis points to 4.15% on Thursday, after climbing to its highest level since late 2023 earlier this week. South Korean Bond Yields Set to Rise on Chips Boom, Analysts Say Why South Korea’s Stock Boom Isn’t Boosting the Won: Explainer

Schools have become a “pipeline” to worklessness for a large cohort of young people in the UK, according to an influential former Labour adviser who has called for urgent action to help a “lost generation”. Peter Hyman, a former adviser to Tony Blair and Keir Starmer, told the Guardian the government should ban social media and enact radical education reform to tackle the “national scandal” of young people who are not in education, employment or training (Neet). Launching a major new report which is expected to influence government policy on Neets in the UK, Hyman called on ministers to overhaul a system that trapped the young in a “rejection economy” where they were being failed by the education system, employers and social media companies. The former headteacher said he was shocked at the sadness and despair experienced by school leavers who felt abandoned, ill-equipped and unable to enter an increasingly competitive jobs market. He added that close to one million were being wrongly classed as “snowflakes”, when in fact they were being “failed by government and the state”. The UK has the third-highest rate of young people who are Neet among Europe’s richest countries, after a sharp rise to almost one million – the highest level in more than a decade. Fuelling a growing sense of alarm in government, it comes as the former Blair-era cabinet minister Alan Milburn prepares to publish a highly anticipated report into the crisis in youth jobs next week. Milburn told MPs on Wednesday that Britain risked facing a “generational problem” that was worse than the damage inflicted on young people by the 2008 financial crisis. The rate of 16- to 24-year-olds who were Neet peaked at 16.8% in 2012 amid soaring unemployment after the banking crash. The rate fell back, although has since increased sharply to 12.8% amid a difficult jobs market and growing problems with mental ill-health. “On the face of it we’ve got a smaller problem. But what I want to say to you is – you’ve got a ...

Lying in a hospital bed in Saudi Arabia, his legs encased in plaster casts, Shrawan Shah Rauniyar clung to the hope that at least he would be fairly compensated. After all, when his legs were crushed under a giant metal beam that fell off a forklift, he was working on a project belonging to one of the most profitable companies in the world: Saudi Aramco. Rauniyar, a migrant worker from Nepal, was not employed directly by the state-owned energy company, but like tens of thousands of other migrant workers in the Gulf kingdom, he worked for a small labour supply company, which sent him to work on a project managed by the Italian firm Saipem, which in turn was contracted to Aramco. When staff from Saipem came to visit him in hospital, they brought him some flowers, chocolates and a blunt message. “Don’t ask us about compensation. We don’t know about it. You’re a contract worker for us. Talk to your employer,” Rauniyar alleges. But the labour supply company appeared in a hurry to wash its hands of him. Men from the company came to threaten Rauniyar in hospital, he says. “Go home. Otherwise, we’ll kill you. We’ll kick you out on the street. Then who will give you food and shelter?” they allegedly told him. Rauniyar refused to give in and demanded the compensation he was entitled to in his contract and under Saudi law, but less than three weeks after the accident, he claims staff from the labour supply company “forcefully” took him to the airport and put him on a plane back to Nepal. Saipem confirmed Rauniyar was injured and said it “ensured full medical assistance” for him. Rauniyar believes some of the responsibility for his fate lies with Aramco. “I get enraged thinking about Aramco. Since it is taking workers from other companies, shouldn’t they pay attention to them? It’s their responsibility, too,” he says. “Aramco has become rich selling our sweat and blood.” View image in fullscreen Aramco is one of the wealthiest, most profitable and influential corporations in th...