>> as earnings season heats up next week's tech earnings to determine the market's next move, dominic choo at hq with more, there's some big and important companies reporting next week. >> oh, there are, even though are forgot my uniform i'm going to talk about those tech earnings. heavy hitters are coming up next week. big giants like intel. on the chip side, intel is huge. yahoo!, ebay, google, ibm all reporting in this coming week. so what are the analysts expecting out of these big tech heavyweights? on the earnings side, tech companies are expected to report a 7.4% increase in earnings from the prior period. from the prior year. according to analysts at fact set. that's considerably higher than the 4.6% credit expected for the s&p 500 as a whole. it looks even better when you call the top line side of things. the revenue side. analysts are looking for a 5.4% bump in sales. that's double the revenue boost seen for the entire s&p 500 as a whole. where is the growth coming from? it's all about those chips. on the whole, analysts expect to see 41% year over year earnings growth in semicon