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It seems the folks at Intel and NVIDIA don’t get along well even if their machine do. Intel’s marketing director for netbooks Anil Nanduri touts that Broadcom’s new chip would be much more suited for netbooks, being cheaper and maybe even less power intensive. Most netbook buyers are looking for something that will last longer [...]

Right on top of the Pine Trail update, Broadcom also announces an updated version of the Crystal HD video decoder to enable 1080P HD playback low-powered computers like CULVs and netbooks. From the buzz around town, not much is known about the new chip and what makes it different from the old one but it [...]

One hacker has already added a Broadcom HD video accelerator to the Intel Atom powered Samsung NC10 which worked well. Another hacker has tried the same hack on a VIA C7-M powered netbook and come out with good results. Chris over at HP Mini Note PC has modded his HP Mini 2133 with a Broadcom [...]

Soon,  our netbooks will have the capability to truly display videos in all their 1080p HD goodness. Thanks to Broadcom’s Crystal HD Enhanced Media Accelerator Mini PCI-e card, not will only our netbooks enable HD video but view content heavy Flash content as well. This includes HD videos on YouTube, CBS, BBC iPlayer, Pandora.tv among [...]