Sulasailor: More importantly I am left wondering how a  POET processor would perform against Intel's new chip it certainly would cost far less  to develop than appears to have been spent overcoming the difficulties in developing Penryn.

Before even thinking about constructing the better spacecraft, one should first gain some experience building a disruptive tricycle.

Developing a processor is several orders of magnitudes more ambitious than developing an optical transceiver. Forget it!