Electronics industry to grow a meager 4 percent in 2013 January 6, 2013 3:36 PM Dean Takahashi Dean Takahashi Twitter Profile Recent Stories: With 50 percent better battery life, Intel’s Haswell will drive laptops that won’t burn your lap Source confirms Intel’s big score: Samsung tablet using an Atom chip The DeanBeat: Microsoft and Sony should escape binary thinking Still, the rate of growth is better than the 1 percent drop in sales in 2012.