I seems the datacenters agree that photonics rather than electronics is the way to go for speed and power consumption. In an article from Computer Weekly (posted by Phil-v), Archana Verkatrama points out the advavtages of phontonics but as Tombot rightly pointed out, Intel's Silicon can't lase and is the unacceptable disadvantage to its "Silicon Photonics",and does not address Moore's Law either. An editorial points out: "And what of Intel's much vaunted silicon photonics, which has been presumed to offer an advantage to Intel in the data center? Here I believe that technically naïve financial writers have been taken in by Intel's clever marketing. There's nothing new about the use of fiber optics for interconnectsin the data center. Mellanox, one of the members of the OpenPower Foundation, makes 100Gb/s Ethernet cards for servers as a commercial product.

There is the promise, as yet fulfilled by no one, including Intel, of eventually being able to integrate all the lasers and electronics for fiber optics onto the silicon substrate of the microprocessor. Until that promise is realized, the fiber optic systems all need to be in separate modules from the microprocessors themselves, including what Intel offers." (Sorry about the unintended change in font size here) Archana offers the phrase: "processing at the speed of light". Does that sound familiar? There is a marketing tactic starting that makes unsubstanciated claims that they can do what POET is actually doing. It is a misleading and an attempt to undermine POET's true product attributes. We (POET) marketing needs to be aggresive to get the truth out that we are the only ones that can lase in the monolithic chip we are about to launch. The others really have nothing new to offer. Kind of an underhanded way to decieve in my opinion. Customers need to be aware of POET's unique advantages.