Ahhh, because they said they did....?

Among the technical challenges addressed by the team are short-channel effects and the development and implementation of a novel technique based on using a non-gold based contact, without liftoff, to achieve self-alignment. This results in a general digital device format for III-V technologies. Many of these processes have been captured as new intellectual property for the Company by submission of patent applications.

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This milestone (M-8) is associated with reducing the feature size of key POET devices to the 100-nm range in scale. We had previously achieved sub-200-nm scaling as announced in the first quarter. While work progresses to drive down feature size further, our technical team now believes that it will achieve this milestone in the near-term.