Wanttoretireearly's post reminds me that It's a wonderful human characteristic, when encountering a problem, to find a work around. Programmers do it all the time. The effect is spaghetti logic or for engineers a Heath Robertson machine. Something that works but built in an inelegant or complex way.

CMOS development will rattle on with work arounds to the point where there is a paradigm shift, a totaly new approach. You don't need me to tell you where or what that shift is. The question is who is going to demonstrate the new way?

The comforting thing about being a participant here is the growing awareness that despite NDA there is a sense that the message is being heard - 'you can smell it' as someone said. There are now too many clues emerging from the DD done here and, dare I say hushed whispering that goes on behind the scenes, to convice me that the shift is happening.

There are POET adopters who will demonstrate that a paradigm shift has occurred. Soon the company will tell us what we already know. Which is why our reactions to good news is so muted and so easily diverted by journalistic froth. Listen to the heart beat.

Slowly at first the inescapable conclusion that it is simply not worth the cost to continue R&D in Si CMOS on work arounds and better instead to invest in the new cheaper faster effective and elegent solution POET is dawning on stake holders. AM would not be here if it were not so. He will put that message over to other key stakeholders. Once an established leader adopts the new approach the crowd will follow. We are simple creatures and herd mentality will prevail and the stampede will begin.

Is there really a big name behind the NDA shield? We are all here because we are gamblers and the odds are looking very good.

It's palpable we can begin to feel it, our insticts are alerted, we are on guard. Its happening.

Sulasailor