I noticed something I hadn't before on the new Investor Presentation:
http://www.poet-technologies.com/docs/presentations/poet-investor-presentation.pdf
P.15: "Unique Detector architecture eliminates TIA"
This is interesting. My research puts the average TIA purchase cost at around $12-14.
You can find some for sale by Texas Instruments here: http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/amplifiers/special-function-amplifiers/transimpedance-amplifiers-products.page
So the POET detector is not only disruptive, by a magnitude of up to 33x, but the integrated POET engine immediately eliminates the cost of a TIA to a purchaser - 1 out of 5 different chips in the current technology set-up. I wonder how they factor this in to the asking price for a POET detector?
Of course, the status of the POET detector as the company's first product remains unclear. IR has not responded to me on this issue; this question was not addressed in a typical boilerplate response I received after 3 detailed requests for information.
lebowski101
