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HP beats analyst estimates

Strong sales in emerging markets boosted Hewlett-Packard's second-quarter earnings to $2.2 billion, or 87 cents a share, up 24 percent from a year earlier.

Revenue for the quarter rose 11 percent to $28.3 billion, the company said Tuesday.

Those figures beat analyst estimates of earnings per share of 85 cents and revenue of $28.1 billion, according to Thomson First Call.

Earnings excluding one-time items were $2.1 billion, or 80 cents a share.

HP forecast revenue for the third quarter to be about $27.3 billion to $27.4 billion and earnings per share excluding items … Read more

Dell up next as Intel 45-nanometer chips creep into laptops

Dell will begin offering Intel's "Penryn" processor as an option on several notebooks within a week or so, according to sources close to the computer giant.

Although the 45-nanometer generation of Penryn processors targeted at laptops was announced back in early January, the chips haven't exactly leaped into laptop lineups.

So far, Hewlett-Packard is the biggest taker of one Penryn chip: the Core 2 Duo T9300 (2.5GHz, 6MB L2 cache). The HP Pavilion dv6700t, dv9700t, and dv2700t series all use the T9300. The massive 20-inch Pavilion HDX also offers the T9500 (2.6GHz, 6MB cache) … Read more