Since Intel didn’t come to the tablet with an HD decoder chip that could play HD in 1080p for its Atom platform, it reached out to one of its competitors, Broadcom and used their HD chip.
Intel’s latest Atom platform codenamed Pinetrail M can play HD 1080p with the help of Broadcom’s BCM70015 HD video decoder chip and it will be up to Intel’s partners to implement and buy this chip.
No word yet on chip pricing but we feel safe in speculating that it will cost less than Nvidia’s Ion 2. Still, Ion 2 will let you play some games on your netbook while Broadcom can only make sure you HD 1080p works without stuttering. But as we do know from experience Torchlight will run on the Samsung N220 running only 1G of RAm on the Atom N450 chip set. So what a well set up netbook running Pine trail M will be able to do will be of some interest to those in the gaming community
Via NetbookNews.de
