Exciting indeed Lebowski!  Just a reminder of one of these strategic partnerships potentially becoming a commercial partnership; now into 2nd year of initial 3 year agreement with SilTerra

Firdaus Abdullah, SilTerra’s Chief Executive Officer stated, “SilTerra is delighted to be working with POET in what we regard as a key strategic engagement to address the increasing need for cost-effective solutions for Data Center Interconnects through the innovative use of silicon in photonics.  POET’s Optical Interposer is a major advance over other approaches to optical interconnects and facilitates the co-packaging of electronics and photonics devices in a single Multi-Chip-Module (MCM). POET’s “Photonics-in-a-package” solution has the potential to address even larger markets in the future for the integration and co-optimization of ASIC’s and DSP’s with photonics at the interposer and chip level.  We at SilTerra look forward to a long and prosperous relationship between our two companies and our teams.”

The Master Collaboration Agreement between POET Technologies and SilTerra Malaysia Sdn Bhd was signed on April 6, 2018 and includes provisions for multiple co-development projects, consignment by POET of newly purchased equipment to be installed in SilTerra’s Malaysian foundry, various support services to be provided by SilTerra and the purchase of wafers containing Optical Interposer devices from SilTerra over an initial three-year term.

https://poet-technologies.com/news/2018-apr-9.html

From SilTerra’s own website:

“Since early 2017, SilTerra has been fabricating silicon photonics chips on our CMOS line. These chips are capable of supporting optical transceiver modules which handle data bandwidths of up to 100Gbps. Our partnerships with game-changers in technology is now seeing us support the development and fabrication of chips capable of handling data bandwidths of 400 Gbps and beyond.”

My underline for emphasis.