Professors David Hsu and Kevin Werbach of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania have a good analysis of Google's strategy behind Chrome, available as podcast. This analysis goes further than the typical analysis such as "the browser war is back" and "Chrome is a direct assault on Microsoft's Internet Explorer", which you could read in the hastily written IT press articles ...
This podcast can be found at http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2045. There is also a transcript version available.