Intel late today reported its best quarterly earnings and sales in its 42-year history as corporations and small businesses significantly increased orders for PCs and servers powered by Intel chips. Clearly, companies that cut back capital exchpenditure budgets during the recent recession began to feel more comfortable starting to make those purchases again. The two open questions are whether this increase in demand will have a carryover effect into other quarters for Intel? And, which PC makers were the beneficiary of corporate buying?
Stay tuned.

