The rather modest decline today, on a very negative day on the venture, seems to indicate that the market wasn't anticipating the type of blockbuster NR that some here felt was coming. If it had we would have suffered a much steeper decline.

Who's to say that the end result of Dr.T's efforts won't actually produce an even better chip than was originally envisioned.

"development and implementation of a novel technique based on using a non-gold based contact, without liftoff, to achieve self-alignment."

Gold is worth it's weight in gold. If they can eliminate the need for it that should be a sizable advantage in production costs. Bonus.