Google, Intel Chips Looking Toward Business For Glass Wearables

Google GlassIntel already powers several mobile devices for Google. Now the company known for branding its semiconductor chips as "Intel Inside" will power Google Glass in 2015, displacing Texas Instruments, per reports. The company's chips already provide the brain power behind several of Google's mobile devices.

Intel plans to promote Glass to companies like hospitals and manufacturers, while developing new workplace uses for the device, reports The Wall Street Journal. 

Most brands building wearable smart eyeware, such as Epson Moverio, target business and manufacturing, while Google focuses on consumers. While some believe Google continues to market to the wrong market, others -- including its execs -- believe Intel continues to drag change to support mobile. In November 2013, Intel laid out an aggressive plan to revive mobile, but last month the company reported that its Mobile and Communications Group will lose $4 billion in 2014.

Google Glass, worn as eyeglasses, sports a tiny screen above one eye to provide a digital display of data such as emails and photos. Those who wear the device control it with a tap on the side or "OK Google" voice command. Some believe the chips powering the device through searches and other features could use another layer of security.

Intel announced on Monday that it had acquired PasswordBox, a Montreal-based provider of a cross-platform identity management service. The technology gives users a way to log into Web sites and applications from any device without having to type or remember passwords. The company has been added to Intel's Security Group, which also includes McAfee.

Analysts say that Intel has not confirmed the Wall Street Journal report.

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