Intel says PC sales are stabilizing, tablets picking up slack

Intel is reporting its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings for 2013, and it includes some good news for the PC industry. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich sees "signs of stabilization" for the traditional computer market, which has been in its steepest, longest decline in history.

While the company reported smaller profits and revenue of $9.6 billion and $52.7 billion for the full year — compared to $11 billion and $53.3 billion, respectively, in 2012 — the company actually saw its PC revenue increase two percent, to $8.6 billion, since last quarter. Since that's also about the same amount of money Intel pulled in from PCs this time last year, and since sales of Intel chips are a pretty decent measure of how well the PC industry is...

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