and the story* continues. all speculatively, of course...

• the acquisition is as a wholly-owned subsidiary
• Otellini comes out of retirement as intermediate-term CEO, continuing to groom Copetti
• Chris quits his job at Grayling so he can load PTK shares at arms-length and retire ridiculously wealthy (and come to Vegas with the rest of us...)
• Mansfield is poached, joins BoD
• Otellini takes role of Chairman, Copetti shifts back to CEO for the long-haul
• The Blue Men re-appear in ads as Intel/POET spokes-creatures.

a99>Intel acquires POET for [tens of] billions

GLTA,

R.

* - corrected one small typo in Aves' post. :-)