Watching HD videos on netbooks will be easy

The new netbook with Intel Atom Pine 45 nm processor will play well in Full HD 1080p format when equipped with BCM70015 chip.

Well-known as the world's leading mobile communications chip provider, Broadcom has just launched the BCM70015 Crystal HD chip for Intel Atom netbooks with the newly introduced Pine Trail 45 nm platform.

Broadcom BCM70015 chip, HD video solution on netbooks. Photo: Tech.

Broadcom said it was soon introducing its products to OEM manufacturers that took orders for netbooks from well-known PC vendors to help make netbooks limited to executable view video format content. Full-HD.

The Broadcom BCM70015 chip has the advantage of power saving and low cost, has the function of decoding Full-HD 1080p video on devices not capable of playing this format like netbooks. BCM70015 supports all H.264 / AVC, MPEG-2, VC-1, WMV9, MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, AVS and even Flash video formats.

Dell Mini 10 netbook sold in January 2010 has the option of BCM70015 chip. Photo: Electronista.

According Techmagazine , Broadcom image processing solution will be applied first on new netbooks of Asus, Dell and Samsung. And one of them is the Dell Mini 10, which will be sold in the first quarter of 2010 with BCM70015 as an option in the hardware configuration.