analyst insights

  1. AMD to back USB 3.0 in its chips

    Advanced Micro Devices will support USB 3.0 in its chips, marking the first instance of a major PC processor supplier getting behind the standard. Intel has yet to support the high-speed interface. The USB Implementers Forum today announced that AMD will deliver the first chipsets to...
  2. PC Users Like Windows 7 -- and Windows XP

    PC Users Like Windows 7 -- and Windows XP Early Windows 7 users like the new operating system, but many Windows XP users still like their nine-year-old OS. That's the word from two new reports by Forrester Research, which said that 86 percent of the first users of Microsoft's newest operating...