POET Technologies Inc. (TSX.V:PTK) recruitment of Ajit Manocha, former head of Global Foundries, itself a spin-out from AMD Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) is highly indicative of the value contained in POET.

For such an industry heavyweight to joint the Board of Directors in and executive capacity speaks volumes as to how the company’s opto-planar technology platform is being perceived by the integrated microchip industry. To suggest that POET’s incremental rise into the ranks of truly disruptive technologies is not hubris, given that the platform’s promise of clock speed increases up to 100X, and with power savings up to 90X, and (my favourite part) at substantially reduced cost to manufacture.