Re: Outstanding photodetector beats competition by multiples
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Apr 18, 2016 12:56AM
Rickface: But for Silicon Photonics how is it different and why do you have to redevelop for every AOC?
Please re-read my post, rickface. I said "manufacturing costs", and I did so for a reason. It should be obvious that development costs are one-time costs only, while manufacturing costs are not.
The reason for POET to be much cheaper on the manufacturing side is that the POET laser is monolithically integrated, while any SI Photonics' laser is not. To recycle the Suresh quote, but highlighting different words: