oz4m2, this article was down right scary.  Could it be true?  Intel playing hard ball, and one supposes, just keeping this market space open in case they feel like returning to it.  The last paragraph of this article; pasted below, is worth pondering over.  TMI

"They may have decided not to work for an optics operation in which the emphasis is apparently not on a thriving concern, but on helping some of its largest customers of other gear drive down prices to the point of making it impossible for the largest American optical component companies, which would ordinarily be responsible for future R&D efforts, to sustain themselves solely in this space without outside capitalization."