Hey guys, Not sure how to field this question. How do I answere this guys question? maybe some one with more technical understanding can sign up to this board and help bring this guy up to speed "and at the same time put correct information about POET into the domain of industry professionals" or PM me a reply or post it here so I can post it there.

Thanks

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=351382

Yeah, much of the other stuff, I got from that singular white paper. That's where the mention of CHFET occurred. I should point out that GaAs is the implied technology of the future, but then again, 30 years ago, when I worked at McD, GaAs was the technology of the future.

The POET guys claim way more gain than is realistic, given that they're only dinking with the I/O. Given that many PCs run substantially faster with SSDs, the I/Os are still a 2nd or 3rd order impact on overall system speed. I can see that there might be limited scenarios where POET would make lots of sense, like in a packet switching context. Their claims only address power in the white paper, running about 1/10th the power at the same datarate, but nothing that suggests that they can run 150 Gb/s, which is their primary claim of 10x speed improvement.