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Hewlett-Packard has Windows 8 tablets and hybrid devices in the works, sources told CNET. This follows comments this week by CEO Meg Whitman, who signaled that HP is readying a bevy of Windows 8 products for the fourth quarter.

HP's enthusiasm around Windows 8 products is no secret. CEO Meg Whitman made it amply clear this week while the company's revenues conference call. "We have a product line lined up in PSG on Windows on X86. We believe we're going to be then-positioned for holiday on Windows 8 X86," she said, referring to Intel's X86 chip design.

The straightway day at a tech conference

And the straightway day at a tech conference, Whitman said HP would release a Windows 8 tablets using both Intel and ARM chips, although no more details were provided.

Earlier this week, Whitman told The Wall Street Journal that although a Windows 8 tablet on X86 is slated for the December holiday, that's not necessarily the case for ARM. "Windows 8 on ARM. It's not on the spur of the moment clear when that will launch," Whitman said.

Separately, Richard Shim, an analyst at DisplaySearch, said he knows of one HP Windows 8 tablet in the works. That's a 10.1-inch design boasting a resolution of 1,366x768 pixels. That device is slated for mass production in the July timeframe, according to Shim.

Brooke Crothers writes about small devices and the hardware inside. He has served as editor at large at CNET News and a contributing reporter to The New York Times' Bits and Research sections. His interest in things small began when living in Tokyo in a very small apartment for a very long time. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET.

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