January 15 News from Around the Web

While users of Intel’s platforms now have a few options to choose from when it comes to building a system complete with support for the latest technologies in the form of USB 3.0 and Serial ATA 6Gbps (albeit all of them added on by motherboard manufacturers rather than integrated into the motherboard chipset by Intel themselves), we haven’t heard anything much about similar support being added in or introduced for those looking to build an AMD-based system. Until now that is… We’ve just had a series of images drop into our mailbox showing an ASUS motherboard sporting support for AMD CPUs, and coming complete with both USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps support.