Google and Intel are partnering on the next version of Google Glass, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

When the next version of Glass is launched in 2015, it’ll include an Intel chip instead of the existing Texas Instruments processor. And the partnership won’t only involve the tech inside Glass, the WSJ’s sources say:

Intel plans to promote Glass to companies such as hospital networks and manufacturers, while developing new workplace uses for the device, according to one of the people.

The article doesn’t mention which specific Intel chip would be used in Glass, but it does say the shift to Intel will include a focus on improving battery life and power conservation.

Neither Google nor the other companies mentioned in the article offered a comment to the WSJ.

The article includes a couple additional nuggets of information that I’ve never seen reported before about Google and the Glass program:

• more than 300 Google employees are working on the Glass project
• less than five percent of them are involved in the Glass at Work program

A dramatic change from Texas Instruments to Intel inside Glass could explain why Google’s development of the Glass software seems to have slowed to a crawl in recent months.WShat do YOU think, Explorers — is this good news? bad news?

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