Rob,

I can accept that my post was harsh, but I feel with some justification.

Anyone that posts on this board is posting to add to a pool of knowledge and subject to corrections and comment from other board members. However, JH is not your standard poster, he is a journalist. He has journalistic powers way beyond this boards influence. He writes widely distributed articles which reach audiences far beyond the scope of this board. I for one don't like seeing a false view of POET being publicised outside this board, which is highly likely to happen and I suspect may have happened already. Did not FJ pick up one?

In my book he has a responsibility to apply higher standards tahn our average poster. I do not feel we ought to kowtow to what to me appears to be a somewhat blinkered view and asinine view of POET's potential. For example he only makes a general statement that 'he has read the POET papers' but not once does he reference or intellectually dissect or illuminated anything that those papers say. He simply repeats the same mantra regarding scaling and wafers size he has rehearsed.

POET is faster in part because it is able to run at higher clock speeds than the CMOS can ever run, in fact the lower you scale CMOS the bigger the heat problem of faster speed clocks, he does not appreciate that scaling is not the major factor in POETs performance compared to silicon CMOS. He is comparing apples with pears and coming up with a turnip.

In my view he is masquerading as an expert journalist, the quality of his posts demand a far higher standard if he is to be credible

Yes this board has been unkind to JH but given that he was initially politely treated and given the opportunity to accumulate a wider knowledge base by members of this board, an opportunity he did not take, I have no truck with his arguments

Yes I just wish I could be as patient and calm as you but then I was hoping for a road to Damascus moment. I think this is a moment that JH has passed by

I appreciate your point about pots, black and kettles