@woundedknee

"Krom....your statement...."It's also possible that Ms5 and Ms7 are not going to get done until 100nm. What's the point of doing them at 900 nm if they can be done at 100nm wheb the process is ironed out".

Comment: I am not a tecky and don't understand the process, but this is the first real comment that carries some validity for the delay. To me it is logical unless someone with technical smarts refutes this theory."

I've put forth a similar theory, but for different reasons. I don't think they need to do the optical parts at 100nm. Aparrently, the optical components only need to be at 500nm as per Krom's own post from IR:

http://agoracom.com/ir/POETTechnologies/forums/discussion/topics/587517-couple-questions-answered/messages/1843464#message

FTA:

"We're reducing the feature size for digital electronics applications, which is by far the largest market opportunity in the near to medium term. Purely optical applications can be fully addressed with 500 nm minimum feature sizes, as they are today."

HOWEVER . . .

We have seen MS5 pushed aside once in favour of the MS6. Franky I don't know why MS5 was ever on the docket, considering it didn't seem to be required for the IR sensor or the OE interface. Taylor went as far as saying the need for it was "obviated" in the MS6 NR and it wasn't until I contacted IR about it that I learned it was still on.

MS7 is in BAE's hands and Chris hinted in an earlier post that BAE might be holding things up.

Since MS8 is being done at UConn and SSC is all for commercial POET applications right now, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that some headway was made on MS8. Maybe we will get an incremental update on MS8 when 5&7 are finally released. I'm not saying it will, but it's possible. And if such a thing comes to pass it will almost make up for what we're going through at the moment