Intel CEO tells employees he will take more risks

In an end-of-year note to the company's workers, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich reveals the company will need to take more risk. He explains making bold moves will be the new normal for the company, and that he's very confident that data will play a major role in the future.

Furthermore, Krzanich underscores that Intel is now very close to being a 50/50 company, meaning that half of the company's revenue comes from non-PC markets. CNBC posted the full internal memo over here.

In an internal memo that was sent to CNBC, Krzanich acknowledged "innovation" inside Intel's client computing business -- its biggest segment -- but said the biggest opportunities are in the company's growth areas like connected devices, artificial intelligence and autonomous driving.

"It's almost impossible to perfectly predict the future, but if there's one thing about the future I am 100 percent sure of, it is the role of data," Krzanich wrote. "Anything that produces data, anything that requires a lot of computing, the vision is, we're there."