When Apple was nearing bankruptcy after the dot com bust, they didn't take money from anybody. Their new product strategy (smartphones) turned them around and made them the largest captialized public company on Earth.  They could've used money from other big wigs in the tech industry, but they engineered their way out of the abyss.

POET wants to control their own destiny junkers87 because they believe they have the way and can find the means to do it. It might seem odd as to why they don't take money from an Intel or anyother behemoth, but a few years out into the future looking back, we may have your question answered. Certainly, what we may not see now Suresh has probably mapped out a few years ahead of our thinking. I am not saying that I know anything special, but this is the sense of what I am getting about POET. POET should have died a few years ago and it hasn't. Why? Because they do have something very useful to basically most of the I.T. industry and they want to leave their options open and not get boxed-in by backward-thinking and carve out a brilliant future with forward-thinking that will elevate productivity at a much lower cost. Why? Those cost pressures are in the industry now and POET has a way to address this. The photonics industry will be and is bringing a new breath of fresh air to the industry, and I think POET wants to be a key part of fanning those winds on their own.

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