You just answered your own question PnP....the company has stated they are running wide open with what they are doing now and have no time to engage with other partners.
To suggest that you just drop off a chip and wait for the orders to come is disingenuous; it is not how the business works. Something that takes some of the top minds in their field years to develop is not dropped off and walked away from. It takes months of discussions to develop a partner such as the one CPG is representing...SV wouldn't be talking to them twice a week if that were not the case. Furthermore, if you want to build an ecosystem that your component is critical to, again, you don't just drop your component off; it takes months of meetings, planning and coordination to make it possible.
Yes, in the future, once this customer has put in orders and the ecosystem is established POET will be in an excellent position to solicit further customers....but you have to make a foundation before you can build a house.
IMHO