RE:RE:The New Corporate Overview Anyone outside of managment, including yourself, would not have known about the '4th terminal" issue. If that had not been the case, a monolithic chip could have been created. There ended up being a few problems: it was not commercially viable at that time (probably would still be the case today) --- you would need to convert entire industries to reinvent themselves around this monolithic chip (GAAs) as industry segments were based mainly on silicon technology. SV recognized at the time that pursuit of getting GAAs mainstream would be too long and there would be a lot of resistance to adopt. Mainly because the industry was heavily invested and committed to silicon solutions. SV said (parapharased) there was no point to inventing what customers don't want. NOW with the OI it is silicon based but it is material independent as well, so could this be the best of both worlds? Compatibility would be another issue. SV had said as well (paraphrased) that its customers would want the whole technoology in a monolithic chip if they were to adopt ---- so all or nothing! To ask a small company to do all of that without huge funding would have been an impossible endeavour. SV righted Poet's ship, so a lot has changed. By staying in the past, which is a bashers' ploy to muck up the present timeframe, is BS. If yu want to be a complaining caveman, then find a time machine and go back to that era and have at it. ewe sea.
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