I think POET is more advanced than what we know. Remember, we first heard about synopsys on September 2nd, 2014, but they started to work with them on or before March 1st, 2014.

From P2:

New strategic relationships: Per Company representatives, the Company is developing today a strategic relationship with a leading company in the electronic design automation industry which works with all major semiconductor designers and fabricators. Specifically, such company develops tools and provides services for digital system-on-chip designs. Per Company representatives, it will be much easier to market POET and to gain market acceptance, if and when, the Company can provide the associated structure models in a ready-to-use form, as is common with other technology providers.

They are clearly talking about Synopsys. ''The effective date of the opinions and conclusions in P&A’s report is March 1, 2014''.

The Lab-to-Fab transition started on July 8th, 2014. We first heard about a mysterious foundry on September 2nd, 2014. After that nothing, we had to wait until March 30, 2015 for the Signing of a Collaboration Agreement with BAE Systems...