Just after AMD detailed its newly available FEMFX deformable physics library that was added to the GPUOpen library set, Nvidia announced Wednesday that it will also be working with the Finite Element Method. As it turns out, the PhysX 5.0 SDK is around the corner, set to land sometime in 2020.

The FEM method is already considered an industry standard in the automotive and manufacturing industries. Although it requires a large amount of power to complete the accurate simulations needed in these industries

It’s giving season here at Tom’s Hardware, so we have another exciting giveaway lined up for our readers. This time we’re giving away a tempered-glass PC case from Thermaltake and a mini-ITX motherboard from Supermicro!

Our grand prize package has everything you need to get started on your holiday PC build. Up for grabs is the Thermaltake Core P1 TG Mini ITX wall-mount, tempered-glass chassis and the Supermicro C9Z390

Nvidia could be one step closer to acquiring Mellanox. Reuters reported yesterday that the $6.9 billion deal, which the companies announced in March, is set to receive unconditional approval from the European Commission as early as today.

Mellanox is best known for making interconnect equipment for data centers. Nvidia and Intel were said to have engaged in a bidding war earlier this year to determine which one would acquire the company--Nvidia's offer of $6.9 billion in cash won

LG is getting some attention today, dropping its 2020 line of Ultra monitors, including a 4K monitor meant to be ergo-friendly and four premium-looking gaming monitors .

LG didn't share a release date or pricing for the monitors. But it will be showcasing them at the CES tech conference in Las Vegas in January.

For Gamers

When it comes to the 'regular' aspect ratio gaming lineup, LG is introducing three displays at CES. These are the

The U.S. Department of Commerce is close to revealing new limits on the export of certain American technologies, according to Reuters , which said yesterday that it saw  an internal status update revealing  the restrictions the department's considering.

That document reportedly showed that Commerce Department regulators are being cautious with these restrictions. Reuters said the department will seek comment from foreign governments, as well as U.S. tech companies, before introducing them.

Seeking comment from other governments would reportedly be part

Update 12/19/2019 11:50am PT: AMD responded to our queries with the following statement that quashes the questions raised by Fudzilla's reporting:

AMD Radeon RX 5500 series is manufactured on TSMC's advanced 7nm process, the same process used for the RX 5700 series and Ryzen 3000 series.

Original Article:

Fudzilla's sources claim that the Navi 14

Gigabyte has registered over 30 new SKUs with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) regulatory listing, as spotted by the hardware leaker known as @Komachi_Ensaka on Twitter . The new Eagle-branded SKUs cover Navi-based AMD graphics cards, as well as most Turing Nvidia cards (sans the RTX 2080 Ti ). The big question here is where the Eagle series fits in Gigabyte product hierarchy.

Gigabyte already established the Aorus brand for enthusiast gaming and also has its

Broadcom has started shipping its Tomahawk 4 switch to major cloud providers such as Alibaba and Microsoft. The chip packs 31 billion transistors on TSMC’s 7nm process and has 64 ports of 400GbE switching.

Two years after sampling its 12.8Tbps Tomahawk 3 silicon on TSMC’s 16FF+, segment leader Broadcom has now started shipping Tomahawk 4, the industry’s first switch capable of 25.6Tbps. Early adopters include Alibaba