Today I couldn't wait for POET any longer and bought a new laptop to replace my ancient desktop computer that I have been nursing for a few years now.

The new machine has an Intel Core i3 chip, not exactly red hot I know, but here's Moore's Law in action and my new machine goes faster, but not so much as it really matters for browsing or posting the odd message to my Agoracom friends. This did stir the brain into action , with a definite smell of burnt it occurred to me, how fast does it need to be?

A new thought then entered my head that the fact is, that there are going to be applications in the future that will not need the speed of a POET chip. Initially I thought that this makes it all the more important for POET's strategy to ensure that its chips are aimed at the right vertical markets, where its speed or its other advantages, low energy need/heat, resilience are needed.

Then again, I thought, that as POET chips can be made cheaper than silicon CMOS, this advantage is IMO the killer advantage. The moot point is ,which manufacture of IT products does not want to put a faster, low powered, less hot, more resilient POET chip into its product when its cheaper than a CMOS Silicon. The answer is soon going to become more apparent to potential partners. The recent visitor to UCONN is flying over the Pacific doing his sums perhaps at this very moment.

No this is a killer technology, there's no getting away from it.

All of you guys who have not taken Blissfest’s advice to get a life and instead have spent your day with your noses against the ticker tape, worrying why the SP has ended up at the lower end of the swings today, need to lift your eyes and look ahead, a day will soon dawn when you will see the SP take a stellar path up a vertical faced M Mount Mckinley.

We just have to let the guys build the chip first. The SP just does not matter until then. They will come bearing gifts.