I sent the following to the BBC Click (Technology programme) because in the wake of 'The Article' its time to shout about POET.

WHY DO WE NEVER HEAR ABOUT POET TECHNOLOGY INC?

A significant article to the world of Integrated Circuits produced by Professor Geoffrey Taylor of the University of Connecticut has been published in the June 2014 edition of Compound Semiconductor Magazine.

The years of continued performance improvement of CMOS Si based integrated chips (IC), Moores Law, are nearing their end. Dr Taylor’s article points to a new future of technical improvement using a process known as POET combining light and electrical circuitry on a single monolithic chip.

In effect the world of computing is on the cusp of a disruptive technical change from Silicon based IC to Gallium Arsenide based. The advantages of the new POET technology (Planer Optical Electrical Technology) are increased speed (10x) at reduced power consumption (80% less) and higher clock speeds, POET can be built more cheaply by using the same Molecular Beam Epitaxy methods as used in the manufacture of CMOS Si based IC.

The Intellectual property in the form of 34 patents, with 7 more pending, is in the hands of a Canadian development company POET Technologies Inc, formerly OPEL Inc who sold their solar business in 2013 to focus on developing POET Technology. The company sponsored Dr Taylor’s Team and research facility based at the University of Connecticut where they have worked with NASA on a deep space probe and with BAE, where they have manufactured POET chips using specialised IR technology as an integral part.

Dr Taylor’s article can be accessed on the POET website under ‘Industry articles’ at:

http://www.poet-technologies.com/