Hi POET-try,

It wasn't that no company had enough money, it was that no company had a presence in enough of the verticals that POET could address. In other words, if Intel bought it outright, they would likely only license to Samsung to make memory, to BAE for the IR sensor.

So POET wants to control the syndication of POET so that Intel could buy the rights for general computing, Samsung could get memory, BAE for military, etc. If further licensing occurred it would be Intel/Samsung/BAE licensing the POET IP to their competitiors.

It could also be purchased by foundries to the same end.

All of this was discussed at the Jan TO investors meeting and POET seems to have warmed to the idea of licensing themselves -at least in the short term.

This might mean we end up being a holding company where EVERYONE licenses POET from us.

But the bottom line is that no company out there has enough of a presense in every field to use POET fully.