Nvidia says
Intel’s Pinetrail-M platform is now open
for third party HD accelerators and Broadcom is one of the noisiest partners
with this full HD support for new Atom Pinetrail platform.
We do believe that the matching
Broadcom BCM70012
chip with Pinetrail-M will be a cheaper option. Broadcom describes its BCM70012
chip as an AVC/VCI/MPEG PCI express HD decoder chipset for netbook and nettops
that can handle the full 1080p HD as well as Blu-ray.
Nvidia commented that despite
the fact that Broadcom can solve the HD playback issue, it won't make video
encoding faster, won't support GPU compute applications and most important won’t
make mainstream games runs better.
The Pinetrail-M GMA 3150 graphics
core won’t play HD on its own as it's too week for that, but we do believe that there
will be plenty of partners embracing either Broadcom's BCM700012 or ION 2.
