"They don`t have the holistic solution to the holistic problem",, but how long will it be before they do ??"

When they are ready.

"They have a lot of money and a lot of engineers with state of the art labs working on it as we speak"

They are funding every single university study they can get their hands on because they have no big picture plan, it's full panic mode.

"and they know a little company like POET can do it so it is possible"

This is whole new way of thinking, Geoff invented a new paradigm, their looking for physical solutions to current Si problems.

Geoff stepped backed, realised Si couldn't go further by the laws of Si properties, and made his new paradigm.

"I find the delays progress reports from the big companies abit worrisome.JMHO"

Go to an Intel or IBM shareholders meeting and tell me how confident their accountants are.