Note 1:
,, Milestones noted above were accomplished with a 3party fab partner,an international defense services company that is a global leader in military electronic systems design,
development, manufacturing and integration. The 3rd party partner has world-class GaAs research facilities and has numerous PhD researchers POET’s partnership has successfully reproduced the POET technology y as published, by producing and testin the critical electrical elements of POET Platform sub-process steps for transistors."
From CP page 20
http://poet-technologies.com/docs/POET-Technologies-Corporate-Overview.pdf