POET Technologies Inc.

"Do we know if POET requires bigtime software updates? or do we think that software will simply be able to utilize POET hardware as is? With some sort of POET driver I wold imagine."

POET is a process for making chips so if you replicate an existing architecture then theoretically, no software updates required.

Below is a prior reponse to a question re: firmware (software on-chip) compatibility

http://agoracom.com/ir/POETTechnologies/forums/discussion/topics/610553-poet-and-firmware-solutions/messages/1914523#message