Rainer will be visiting CSI in March 2016 in Belgium: http://www.cs-international.net/speakers

I had a look who else is speaking there. There are five speakers talking about the same topic "Making heterogeneous integration a hit", amongst them Nadine Collaert from IMEC.

I searched for IMEC and found this:

http://www2.imec.be/be_en/press/imec-news/ghent-university-nature-si-photonics-indium-phosphide-lasers.html

"Imec and Ghent University present, for the first time, arrays of indium phosphide lasers monolithically integrated on 300mm silicon substrates in a CMOS pilot line. This breakthrough achievement, published in Nature Photonics, provides a path toward high-volume manufacturing of cost-effective photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with monolithically integrated laser sources. Such laser-powered PICs will revolutionize data transfer between future logic and memory chips.

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Imec’s research and development work on Optical I/O is performed in cooperation with key partners in its core CMOS programs including Huawei, GlobalFoundries, Intel, Micron, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Samsung, SK Hynix, Sony and TSMC."

It seems to me they are still at development stage. Poet is some years ahead. What bothers me, are their partners - high class connections and some of Poet´s favorite partners, too. IMEC is probably giving them alternatives to Poet someday. That constrains Poets timeframe to set an industry standard.

Hurry up, Poet!