In order to facilitate this takedown of the entrenched interests, an agnostic 3rd party with deep pockets needs to take a stake. The two best candidates that come to my mind are: Google and Apple. Both stand to gain tremendously if POETs tech gets deployed into their products and their server farms.

Both have so much spare cash that the dinosaurs would not be able to fight them - or out-lawyer them. The only tool they may have left would be punitive legal action from a friendly legislator in Washington that could craft some silly legislation (akin to the just-deceased Wright Amendment that kept Southwest Airlines from flying directly to other than neigboring Texas states for more than 3 decades) to slow their progress. In this case, I would also doubt that possibility.

Neither Google nor Apple will care much if Intel or AMD goes down - in fact there could be a double benefit in that there would be a crop of talent that could be skimmed out of those sinking ships.

If POET's technology succeeds, there will be a self-reinforcing feedback loop of demise initiated for a whole bunch of companies. And just like others may have profited from knocking POET around while small, we will have the opportunity to profit both from POET's ascension and simultaneously the demise of the displaced.