I am sorry, David, but I have to partly disagree. POET is not a new microprocessor. It is a new way to produce microprocessors. And not only microprocessors, but many more kinds of semiconductors and integrated circuitry.

I agree, however, that POET does not give you a new, fast, power-saving, and cheap microprocessor in an instant. It only gives you the process to produce it and the basic elements you have to put together intelligently to form a microprocessor. And you literally need millions and billions of those basic elements! And you need to know how to piece them together! Yes, this is quite different from what POET does.

I tried to work this out in my POET/ARM comparison. These different capabilities is why I gave both of them a point: POET for the POET process, ARM for being able to design microprocessors. A cooperation between POET and ARM would be profitable for both (and us)!

Andrea ("Powered by POET")