This is all being taken too literally. What I am saying is look to the 20F for cautionary statements. Make an informed investment.
The case of a brittle chip is a remotely faint possibility. We are in uncharted territory. There are currently GaaS switches that are at go to market stages. There is no compound GaaS chips on the market.
POET's goals are to create a market first. There is no true comparable to products or Companies in the market to POET. So the potential distance between success and failure is a large margin.
What I want to indicate is that management is cognizant of all of this and doing their very best to minimize risk and guarantee success from not only an operational level but from a fiscal perspective as well. Management at POET has geared the entire organization to succeed and build an actual go to market business as this is where they can maximize true shareholder returns. If POET reaches monetization of IP, I can't fathom that it will be trading at current volatile prices which may be affected by macroeconomics such as the US Feds reports and tech and industrials reporting lower earnings for the quarter on the TSX.