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ay boy...psst...of course its not going to happen now!! so one waits til 2014 for any buyout or huge revenues...what the heck is wrong with that??
and I say the hardest part already happened...
OPEL Technologies Inc. Achieves Integrated Circuit Milestone
via Proprietary POET Platform
https://www.otciq.com/otciq/ajax/showFinancialReportById?id=107156
if I continued to buy even after those events I described and sold,id be dancing too...wouldn't be smart...accumulation is key...that's what we do
IMHO any sale (and achievement of milestone 8 & 9 is not going to come until six months or later and the market isn't going to do much lasting gain til then. Milestone 7 might get a significant gain if followed closely by a deal with BAE (if not, that's a very bad sign, IMHO) But milestone 7 is a particularly difficult one IMHO.
# 7 is a DETECTION ARRAY. For acceptable function it has to have a very low error rate: too many bad pixels and the array won't meet standards (and these are MILITARY standards which are much higher than civilian ones. For example: a military GPS can locate position to the nearest meter (so it can put a bomb thru a bunker door) but a civilian one can only do to about the nearest 10 meters.
POET technology was SEVERELY hyped in March 2011: Opel made a wildly inaccurate statement that they'd have a "fully integrated chip with all components in a few months" (that was TWENTY EIGHT MONTHS AGO and, by their current (moved forward) milestone it's still 6 to 9 months away. (see my last few posts).
In Sept 2012 the management and Dr Tayor gave great assurances to shareholders at the AGM that the laser milestone would be done by the end of the month in time for the SBIR meeting in early October. When I pointed out that they'd have to say that to prevent people for avoiding the placement (then in the third tranche = SECOND extension and having to do much better than the second tranch to fill) and buying afterward to see first what happened with the solar sale I was viciously attacked for it. But that milestone wasn't met until months later! Opel management says what it "has" to say.
That plus the PR that very carefully crafted to SOUND like a milestone and Opel refused to clarify whether it was or wasn't and later turned out to NOT be, (and Opel refused to clarify whether it was or wasn't when asked by many shareholders!) HUGE credibility problem!
IMHO the price expectations are highly unrealistic as well (as the timing); The Pellingrino report and price was based on ASSUMPTIONS including that the technology WORKS but it's STILL not been proven to work (not til the integrated chip which OPEL said in 2 March 2011 it would have in a few months and two years and four months later it's still six or more months away. EVEN when it's been validated there is STILL a lot of development to be done before it is ready to crank out chips:
Design rules have to be worked out (same as had to be for silicon chips) They can be highly complex: the same problems that had to be worked out in silicon chips will have to be worked out in POET:
The function of some components is affected by the proximity of others or combinations of others etc. These rules can be very complex and will have to be worked out for POET IMHO because the nature of the chip and design of components on it are very different. That will probably take considerable time AND YOU CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO DO IT UNTIL YOU HAVE A FUNCTIONING INTEGRATED CHIP! And it has to be COMPLETED before you can even begin to design chips to manufacture.
So Milestone 9 is going to still be a LONG way from producing chips! This is going to be a MAJOR surprise for many. It would mean a price much lower than based on the Pellingrino report IMHO because that report ASSUMED it worked.
IMHO the risk is considerably greater than current expectations, the time frame MUCH longer, and the price at a sale is going to be much lower. (and posters on the 'pump" board (agoracom: which gets 95% of its revenues from the companies (by its own statement) are already calculating their gains and discussing where to put it!
All that indicates to me another speculative spike like the one from 30 to 180 and then back to 20. Except much lower (the last spike was only 70, this one probably less. Investors are getting dubious. Opel currently appears to have a wildly unrealistic level of expectations in it.
It might work. It might EVENTUALLY make as much money as the Pellingrino report says. But IMHO it will take a LOT longer to get there if it goes that far and if it gets sold sooner the price will be a lot less and the level of speculation IMHO strongly indicates you will probably pay a price far above what a realistic reward/risk appraisal would justify.
A self descriptive post. You didn't say WHAT you claim is "false" because there wasn't anything.
My post was accurate:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ta?s=OPELF&t=3m&l=on&z=l&q=l&p=&a=&c=
same trading range as last 3 months and no reaction at all to the milestone. A mile reaction (only to the top of the already present trading range) from the article in the Globe. Being based on nothing it will rapidly fade away. Note that the volume from the globe article was much less than from the milestone, who's spike fell immediately back.
Perhaps people are leery of a company on its 3rd name change in three years.
Hardly! Very clearly the market was not at all impressed. OPL.V is trading about the same as before the trading halt and announcement of milestone six. OPELF has not traded a single share most days since (very understandable considering what happened last name change and a very low volume (nothing at all above he usual) on the day or two it actually did trade.
RE: (doubleoseven) "in 2011 there was no American market for those shares"
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Completely wrong. The volume then was about the same as it is currently. And there is a huge different between low liquidity (which people knew when they bought) and inability to trade at all for two months! This attempt at trivialization of a very serious problem to shareholders is not going to wash.
horse manure!...go opel...adding more ad more opel...cant get enough and the market agrees with me
I am not remotely about to be holding OPELF when there is an upcoming name change and the management not only is unwilling to take any steps to avoid the recurrence of the inability to trade for two months OPELF had last time but they appeared to want to retain the option of making the same mistake(?) they did last time.
The management's attitude toward the potential for the recurrence of the problem OPELF was utterly appalling. I got the very uncomfortable impression that they did NOT want to be put into a position of being required to avoid it! How else to explain the unwillingness to simply update on the rules now so they'd have time to collect any data that they didn't have on hand (which is what they claimed last time) and that they said they would not do that "until the time comes" (remember: they supposedly were unable to get it for two months last time so refusing to update on the rules in advance raises serious questions.)
That's compounded by their statement that they would not delay the application if at the time of filing they discovered that more information was required. It really felt like they were trying VERY hard to avoid being required to do it right.
I don't see any advantage in OPELF being unable to trade. My concern more is what information is it that they were (and apparently still are) so reluctant to provide that they are willing to incur the wrath of OPELF shareholders to avoid it?
THAT is where I see a huge red flag. IMHO that kind of apparent determination to retain the option to withhold information required by the DTC is very troubling. So much so that I am not re-buying as OPL.V unless there is some resolution of this issue. Do the name change and if there's no problem with OPELF this time I may change my attitude. Or not. right now my DD is tending toward the latter.
IMHO any sale (and achievement of milestone 8 & 9 is not going to come until six months or later and the market isn't going to do much SOLID gain til then. Milestone 7 might get a significant gain if followed closely by a deal with BAE (if not, that's a bad sign, IMHO) But milestone 7 is a particularly difficult one IMHO.
# 7 is a DETECTION ARRAY. For acceptable function it has to have a very low error rate: too many bad pixels and the array won't meet standards (and these are MILITARY standards which are much higher than civilian ones. For example: a military GPS can locate position to the nearest meter (so it can put a bomb thru a bunker door) but a civilian one can only do to about the nearest 10 meters.
This technology was SEVERELY hyped in March 2011: Opel made a wildly inaccurate statement (see my last few posts). In Sept 2012 the management and Dr Tayor gave great assurances to shareholders at the AGM that the laser milestone would be done by the end of the month in time for the SBIR meeting in early October. When I pointed out that they'd have to say that to prevent people for avoiding the placement (then in the third tranche = SECOND extension and having to do much better than the second tranch to fill) and buying afterward to see first what happened with the solar sale I was viciously attacked for it. But that milestone wasn't met until months later! Opel management says what it "has" to say.
That plus PR that sounded like a milestone and Opel refused to clarify whether it was or wasn't and later turned out to NOT be, plus some other events I'm going to go into gave me great pause about re establishing a position.
IMHO the price expectations are highly unrealistic as well (as the timing); The Pellingrino report and price was based on ASSUMPTIONS including that the technology WORKS but it's STILL not been proven to work (not til the integrated chip which OPEL said in 2 March 2011 it would have in a few months and two years and four months later it's still six or more months away. EVEN when it's been validated there is STILL a lot of development to be done before it is ready to crank out chips:
Design rules have to be worked out (same as had to be for silicon chips) They can be highly complex: the same problems that had to be worked out in silicon chips will have to be worked out in POET:
The function of some components is affected by the proximity of others or combinations of others etc. These rules can be very complex and will have to be worked out for POET IMHO because the nature of the chip and design of components on it are very diffferent. That will probably take considerable time AND YOU CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO DO IT UNTIL YOU HAVE A FUNCTIONING INTEGRATED CHIP! And it has to be COMPLETED before you can even begin to design chips to manufacture.
So Miletsone 9 is going to still be a LONG way from producing chips! This is going to be a MAJOR surprise for many. It would mean a price much lower than based on the Pellingrino report IMHO because that report ASSUMED it worked.
IMHO the risk is considerably greater than current expectations, the time frame MUCH longer, and the price at a sale is going to be much lower. (and posters on the 'pump" board (agoracom: which gets 95% of its revenues from the companies (by its own statement) are already calculating their gains and discussing where to put it!
All that indicates to me another speculative spike like the one from 30 to 180 and then back to 20. I like to invest rather than speculate and this one currently appears to have wildly unrealistic level of expectations in it.
It might work. It might EVENTUALLY make as much money as the Pellingrino report says. But IMHO it will take a LOT longer to get there if it goes that far and if it gets sold sooner the price will be a lot less and the level of speculation IMHO strongly indicates you will probably pay a price far above what a realistic reward/risk appraisal would justify. Still looking at it but not on the front burner anymore.
Whether the real progress is satisfactory is open to discussion.
I have been re-examining Opel's statements and credibility since their horrifically inappropriate reactions to inquiries about measures they were taking (answer: NONE whatsoever) to prevent a recurrence of the ADR problem that occurred at the last name change.
The problem was caused because Opel never supplied the information even after it was clearly notified that the ADRs could not trade til it was supplied. After two months the brokers gave up and, under intense pressure from their customers (including myself) did it though a complex and difficult manual processing and physical transfer of certificated (not thru the mail either) to circumvent the DTC who would not process them without the required information Opel "declined" to provide.
Opel has stated that they will take no steps to prevent a recurrence this time!
That reaction prompted me to very closely reexamine the past and the results are not at all encouraging.
Opel made an at the very least highly misleading statement in conjunction with the release of the Pellingrino report (see my previous few posts for full details).
There is also an incident a few months later (which I'll go into in depth with links shortly) about Opel doing a VERY ambiguous PR which APPEARED to indicate another milestone had been met.
I and several others pointed out that it appeared to be carefully worded to make it sound like it had been met without actually saying so (if you analyzed it carefully). MANY shareholders sought clarification from Opel: was it or was it not a milestone? Despite many repeated requests by many people Opel refused to make any clarification!
As it later developed it was NOT a milestone.
There are other issues about apparent management credibility problems I am digging into.
hasn't satisfactory progress been made in the last 12 mos?
Their timeline is not going well at all.
All milestones that have been met were met long after the original schedule (the goalposts have been moved multiple times). #5 is deemed "no necessary" Since it was essential for the optical interconnect and that was an important "bridge" to get a valuable product on the market much earlier than the rest (and help to prevent dilution) it is a very significant loss although the company was careful to obscure that in the PR. I suspect that the fact that the market knows better is part of the reason for the lack of response.
Milestone six was a few scant days early but only for a REVISED milestone. Opel has very poor credibility with its past predictions most especially surrounding POET and the Pellingrino report (for example (2 March 2011: that they would have a functioning integrated chip with all components in a few months.
Its TWENTYEIGHT months later and it's STILL a few months away. Begining to sound a bit like nuclear fusion: "the fuel of the future, and always will be" (due in 10 years or so and has been for the last 50 years!)
OPELF was not HALTED for two months! Check the trading Halt History here:
http://www.otcbb.com/asp/THSearch.asp?searchb...ge1.y=-455
The issue was related to the DTC & temporarily being ineligible for trading. It happens to Canadian stocks listed on US markets as ADR's when a change, or corporate event happens. Here's an example:
http://css.olympiatrust.com/media/13111/olymp...11__2_.pdf
OPELF started trading on the OTCQX on May 16 2012 & the previous name change was in Aug of 2011, that was a different situation to start with, in 2011 there was no American market for those shares. Granted, it is frustrating when you can't sell your shares due to a minor issue with the DTC/SEC/FINRA/IIROC, whatever the blocking source was.
"The TWO MONTH halt on trading OPELF while OPL.V traded as usual during the last name change has a high probability of recurring." WRONG, OPL.V shares were also locked for at least 3 weeks during the name change, because that is the minimum amount of time it takes to process a name change! I know people who could trade again after 4 weeks, some 5 and for ADR's it took longer. A document was missing or contained errors, hence it took longer, no reason to create such a fuss about that...
Here's another prime example of a mistake in your sources..
"It Opel did not get the data in for over two months. I've been told by several sources now that Opel NEVER got the information in and the the brokers had to take matters into their own hands and process them manually and physically transport (NOT thru the mail) actual processed share certificates. "
How can OPL not get the data in for two months when you could trade again after two months eh?!
Your sources are either badly informed because brokers don't take matters into their own hands, they act upon instructions of the Transfer Agent, FINRA, the DTC etc!
thankyou for letting us clear up these matters ;)
let them do it as often as they want...why should I care if they execute their business plan?...I could careless...also their timelines for completing different steps is going well...no problem
2 Mar 2012, TWO YEARS AGO "All components of the technology have been validated by third parties, and the Company expects to have a fully integrated, operational chip within months”
Unfortunately Opel made that TOTALLY FALSE claim on 2 March 2012
http://opelinc.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/NR-2mar2011ODISValuation.pdf
It's REALLY difficult IMHO to see where they had any justification at that time for claiming "all components of the technology have been validated"! I suspect that that definition of "validation" may include only in computer simulation. Judging by all their other releases the only thing they'd validated in an actual chip (i.e.: not merely in computer simulation) was a transistor. That's very far from "all components of the technology" and not remotely a "fully integrated, operational chip which they are STILL lacking over two years and four months later.
So here we are well over two YEARS later and no fully integrated operational chip. Yes, Opel SAYS it will have one in a few months but it said that OVER TWO YEARS AND FOUR MONTHS AGO!.
There have been many other highly inaccurate projections by Opel and it is entirely appropriate to take that history into account when evaluating Opel's current projections.
THIS, IMHO, is why the market is waiting for independent third party valuation.
Opel has MILESTONES for 7 (the infrared detection array) but it's had one before that's long since passed. Same thing for 8
There are IMHO good reasons for believing that milestone 9 (the integrated chip) could be the most difficult milestone of all and is not necessarily achievable just because the others were (which may well be why buyers and financiers are waiting so long).
Achieving each individual milestone has a very high potential (almost a certainty) for necessitating "tweaking' the parameters of the process to settings necessary for that component. The potential for big and even insurmountable problems comes if the setting range for one variable for one component is outside the range for it for another. There might be no intermediate value that works. Even if so, getting it to work might require tweaking other variables and that might put them into a range that won't work for a third component. It might require something like making two separate chips that have to be joined (increasing the expense and reducing the competitive advantage IF it worked).
So what the market wants IMHO is third party confirmation and Opel assurances that it's just about to happen mean nothing. Heard THAT one before! Multiple times!
Which would explain the lack of market reaction to previous milestones. (Today appears to be just a typical blip from an article in a magazine with wide distribution in Canada. With nothing new to back it up it will likely soon fade back as it consistently has before even with significant news.
The TWO MONTH halt on trading OPELF while OPL.V traded as ususal during the last name change has a high probability of recurring.
I emailed Grayling (Opel's new PR people) to see if anything was being done to prevent a recurrence and they told me:
"I don’t want to throw anyone under the bus. All that I will say is that it was bad coordination on the part of IIROC. Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC)" (I am corresponding with the IIROC to get THEIR view of the events)
I talked with Opel management and they said the reason the OPELF shares (ADRs) could not be sold was that Opel sent in their paperwork to the DTC based on the same rules as their last name change (in 2011) [[obviously WITHOUT checking first to see if the rules had been updated/changed and they had been]].
The DTC would not process the shares without additional information required by the rule changes. (I'm still not sure if those were DTC rules or SEC rules). It Opel did not get the data in for over two months. I've been told by several sources now that Opel NEVER got the information in and the the brokers had to take matters into their own hands and process them manually and physically transport (NOT thru the mail) actual processed share certificates. Opel management says that it because they did not have the information on hand. (which presumably should mean that they would be more careful and update on the rules next time, right? WRONG!
Two months seems greatly excessive for Opel to find out what the problem was and to correct it.They were informed by numerous shareholders at the time of the existence of the problem so they cannot claim that they were not aware of it from the beginning.
When I asked him if OPel had checked this time to see if any more rule changes had been made he said no, "we'll do that when the time comes". I then asked him if they then discovered that there would be another delay (due to not having required information) if they would delay filing long enough to prevent a recurrence of the incident. He gave a very convoluted answer (not wanting to delay developments etc.) which amounted to NO. I asked whether in the light of that, they shouldn't check NOW to see if there'd been any changes (to give time to collect any information not on hand) and I got hung up on.
There are two possible explanations for this appalling behavior (and I'm not sure which is the most disturbing):
1) a total contempt on the part of management for the welfare of investors in OPELF. (actually this applies whether 2 is also true or not)
2) Opel may have had some strong motivation for keeping the data out of public databases for those additional two months or NEVER revealing it. The way to do that would be just not include it in the application knowing that Canadian authorities did not require it and that OPL.V could go on trading despite whatever happened in the USA. Other than pure contempt for OPELF holders welfare, that's the only plausible explanation I can think of for Opel's attitude. They were IMHO very clearly very upset at being given prior notification of this potential problem. That would, of course, have great potential for causing problems if they INTENDED to do it again! I am attempting to find out what the nature of the data was.
IN EITHER CASE THERE IS OBVIOUSLY STRONG POTENTIAL FOR IT TO HAPPEN AGAIN.
Another shareholder told me he communicated with Opel AFTER I did about the problem with OPELF (which his email clearly stated) and was told by Opel that this time they would be careful to not submit the application during trading hours.
NOTE" there was an unrelated trading halt with OPL.V which lasted only a few hours because of the application being submitted during the trading day. During my prior conversation with Opel about the problem with OPELF they very clearly knew the distinction between the OPL.V halt and the OPELF halt. IMHO they were clearly trying to throw the other shareholder off with a red herring.
This raise a question of what the nature of the information was and what motive Opel may have had for not revealing it despite the huge problems they were informed it was causing for shareholders of OPELF. It could not be information that was inherently damaging or it would not be required IMHO, so the specifics were what was probably what Opel could not tolerate disclosure of.
Since Opel was reminded of the problem well in advance, if it does happen again, IMHO a class action lawsuit may be in order (email zincfinger@live.com if it does). Given their clear prior knowledge "wanton disregard" would clearly appply IMHO.
DISCLOSURE: I sold out the remaining part of my entire position rather than risk being trapped again like last time, a very real possibility considering the attitude of management. (I was prompted by the horrific attitude display to do more DD on Opel and came up with other IMHO serious concerns which I'll go into shortly (at Stockhouse and Investor Village as well as here in case of deletions).
Agoracom is, by its own statement 95% funded by the companies so it's no surprise that the board is run by a pumper who deletes posts and bans people without justification when they raise concerns with negative implications for the company. I am honored to be banned there (along with others).
I do not intend to reestablish my position unless I get satisfactory answers to a number of questions that came up when I did additional DD prompted by the "attitude" of management. IF I do it will NEVER be as OPELF. [at the current time it appears doubtful that I will in any case]
With Interactive Brokers you can buy and sell directly as OPL.V and not have to risk such absurdities as being totally locked into your position, unable to trade OPELF while trading in OPL.V goes on unimpeded. (Last time the SP declined from 70+ to 40 while OPELF was unable to trade! but OPL.V was.) It appears that your trades execute DIRECTLY on the Canadian exchanges at Interactive Brokers so you don't get killed by the massive spreads and minuscule liquidity on OPELF.
Do not buy OPELF. It is a death trap. Use interactive brokers or some other broker that trades AS OPL.V. (GETTING SHARES DIRECTLY FROM CANADA INSTEAD OF THE DTC MAKES NO DIFFERENCE WHATSOEVER IF THEY ARE CARRIED AS OPELF! It's still subject to USA rules.
Also note: brokers that carry Opel Technologies as OPL.V don't appear to carry it as OPELF as well. The effect of that would be that you cannot send OPELF to a broker and have it automatically converted. YOu may have to convert to cash and rebuy or go thru a long and complicated process (and best to do THAT as a separate transfer from the rest of your account so there's no possibility of it delaying the rest of it transferring! Imagine getting your entire account frozen because Opel did a name change during the process and the OPELF could not be converted and the whole account was on hold! Do NOT go there!
POET Technologies Inc & How to sell Silicon Valley on the death of silicon:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-busi...e13093729/
Interview with Peter Copetti & other management executives of OPL:
Luister naar; POET Presentation Part 1:
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_...
POET Presentation Part 2:
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_...
POET Presentation Part 3:
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p
looky here pal...here is why you are commanded to buy and hold this stock...read about halfway down...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2033671/breaking-moores-law-how-chipmakers-are-pushing-pcs-to-blistering-new-levels.html
Yes, a couple of milestones to go, see page 18
http://www.odisinc.com/documents/OPEL%20Corp%...0v13-4.pdf
OPEL Technologies Inc. Achieves Integrated Circuit Milestone via Proprietary POET Platform
STORRS, CONNECTICUT and TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - June 27, 2013) - OPEL Technologies Inc. (TSX VENTURE:OPL) (OTCQX:OPELF) ("OPEL" or "the Company") announces that it has achieved Milestone 6 in its development roadmap of the proprietary planar optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic fabrication of integrated electronic and optical devices on a single semiconductor wafer, a next-generation alternative to silicon complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology.
The new milestone is the integration of the complementary inverter, the basis for all on-chip logic. Specifically, OPEL successfully demonstrated complementary heterostructure field effect transistor (HFET) based inverter operation using the POET process.
Mr. Peter Copetti, Executive Director of OPEL, and Chair of the Special Strategic Committee (SSC) for commercialization of the POET platform, noted: "The SSC deemed Milestone 6 to be critical for our commercialization activities, and staff focused on this milestone. That we achieved Milestone 6 so quickly spotlights the caliber of the POET team, and our ability to execute and to pivot to industry needs."
Mr. Copetti added: "Due to ongoing needs of the SSC, other pre-determined milestones and dates may have to change without notice - but any changes will be consistent with our commercialization mandate."
The achievement of Milestone 6 obviates the need for Milestone 5 (3/4 terminal switching laser, Q2-2013). Milestone 6 was originally scheduled for Q3-2013, and its achievement in Q2 puts OPEL ahead of its targeted development milestones.
"To serve the digital marketplace currently dominated by CMOS, complementary functions in GaAs/InGaAs are essential," said Dr. Geoffrey Taylor, Chief Scientist. "With this milestone, this functionality has been demonstrated on a POET device."
The OPEL lab demonstrated both nHFETs and pHFETs, with symmetrical positive thresholds, as an integrated circuit with thresholds of +/- 0.5V and VD=2V for 1um gates. Going forward, logic circuits will be integrated with in-plane lasers and detectors with the goal of reducing linewidths towards CMOS state-of-art circuits.
Coupled with achievement of its previous milestones - including demonstration of the vertical cavity laser - POET extends the capability of its unique monolithic platform.
Mr. Leon Pierhal, President and Chief Executive Office of OPEL, added: "We are extremely proud of this achievement. This further underlines the capacity that POET has to be a disruptive technology, able to address current and future challenges facing the semiconductor industry, and provides the SSC with further momentum for its initiatives."
By enabling increased speed, density, reliability, power efficiency, and much lower bill-of-materials and assembly costs, POET provides a new technology direction and opportunity for the semiconductor industry.
POET will allow continued advances of semiconductor device performance and capabilities for many years, overcoming the current power and speed bottlenecks of silicon-based circuits, and will change the future development roadmaps of a broad range of semiconductor applications including mobile and wearable devices, computer servers, storage arrays, imaging equipment, and networking equipment.
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but look at whats coming up in the near term...1st qtr 2014 they should have a ready to go product...now I command you to buy this stock
If two years holding a stock and selling with a good profit(why else do we buy stock) is a short term flip than so be it
why not? look at the latest pr. big things are happening,this is an investors stock...not a short term flip
your ordered to buy more
The post you replied to is more than six months old!!
I don't follow or own OPL anymore
I understand now....its a Canadian thing to do that before news of material things...got it now
explain yourself
OPEL Technologies Inc. Achieves Integrated Circuit Milestone via Proprietary POET Platform
STORRS, CONNECTICUT and TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - June 27, 2013) - OPEL Technologies Inc. (TSX VENTURE:OPL) (OTCQX:OPELF) ("OPEL" or "the Company") announces that it has achieved Milestone 6 in its development roadmap of the proprietary planar optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic fabrication of integrated electronic and optical devices on a single semiconductor wafer, a next-generation alternative to silicon complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology.
The new milestone is the integration of the complementary inverter, the basis for all on-chip logic. Specifically, OPEL successfully demonstrated complementary heterostructure field effect transistor (HFET) based inverter operation using the POET process.
Mr. Peter Copetti, Executive Director of OPEL, and Chair of the Special Strategic Committee (SSC) for commercialization of the POET platform, noted: "The SSC deemed Milestone 6 to be critical for our commercialization activities, and staff focused on this milestone. That we achieved Milestone 6 so quickly spotlights the caliber of the POET team, and our ability to execute and to pivot to industry needs."
Mr. Copetti added: "Due to ongoing needs of the SSC, other pre-determined milestones and dates may have to change without notice - but any changes will be consistent with our commercialization mandate."
The achievement of Milestone 6 obviates the need for Milestone 5 (3/4 terminal switching laser, Q2-2013). Milestone 6 was originally scheduled for Q3-2013, and its achievement in Q2 puts OPEL ahead of its targeted development milestones.
"To serve the digital marketplace currently dominated by CMOS, complementary functions in GaAs/InGaAs are essential," said Dr. Geoffrey Taylor, Chief Scientist. "With this milestone, this functionality has been demonstrated on a POET device."
The OPEL lab demonstrated both nHFETs and pHFETs, with symmetrical positive thresholds, as an integrated circuit with thresholds of +/- 0.5V and VD=2V for 1um gates. Going forward, logic circuits will be integrated with in-plane lasers and detectors with the goal of reducing linewidths towards CMOS state-of-art circuits.
Coupled with achievement of its previous milestones - including demonstration of the vertical cavity laser - POET extends the capability of its unique monolithic platform.
Mr. Leon Pierhal, President and Chief Executive Office of OPEL, added: "We are extremely proud of this achievement. This further underlines the capacity that POET has to be a disruptive technology, able to address current and future challenges facing the semiconductor industry, and provides the SSC with further momentum for its initiatives."
By enabling increased speed, density, reliability, power efficiency, and much lower bill-of-materials and assembly costs, POET provides a new technology direction and opportunity for the semiconductor industry.
POET will allow continued advances of semiconductor device performance and capabilities for many years, overcoming the current power and speed bottlenecks of silicon-based circuits, and will change the future development roadmaps of a broad range of semiconductor applications including mobile and wearable devices, computer servers, storage arrays, imaging equipment, and networking equipment.
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*Always do your own DD (Due Diligence), Always!!*
I just heard of it on sevens board on the other board...in a nutshell what catalyst are ones expecting here and possibly what pps is expected,trying to do dd
OPEL Technologies (TSXV: OPL) Completes $7.2 Million Private Placement
http://www.investmentpitch.com/video/0_hlkf4i5m/OPEL-Technologies-TSXV-OPL-Completes-72-Million-Private-Placement
Corporate Presentation 2013
http://www.odisinc.com/documents/OPEL%20Corp%20Presentation%202013%20v13-3.pdf
It sounds very good to me!
Thanks a lot to fairchij and oogee from stockhouse.com and sevenOdouble!
Is there any future consequence to being invovlved with the U.S. Department of Defense?... could this limit commercialization to the mass public markets?
Seven was recently kicked out.
He did a very good job during the past few months.
May be, he will join us again.
OPL my favorite stock!
Follow this
We believe that this is 'the key milestone' and indeed this is one of those moments. Dr. Taylor and the ODIS team have chosen to achieve the most difficult laser first and have done so under extreme duress. This is not just an endorsement of the ODIS Team but also of the POET process itself," summarized Peter Copetti, Executive Director of the Board of OPEL
Read more at http://www.stockhouse.com/bullboards/messagedetail.aspx?s=OPL&t=LIST&m=31859096&l=0&pd=2&r=0#DLhJdztGetVwbDuw.99
OPEL TECHNOLOGIES FILES FINANCIALS FOR Q3 2012
http://www.opelinc.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/NR-15Nov2012-Q3Results.pdf
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Title: Vertical Emitting Laser
Description: Allows for communication between vertically stacked chips rather than horizontally connected chips (mainstream technology)
Milestone: Dr. Taylor to produce vertical emitting laser at UConn Lab
Accomplished: Yes
Commentary: It's mentioned in this article by optics.org; I'd like to find a second source of verification, however.
Read more at http://www.stockhouse.com/bullboards/messagedetail.aspx?p=0&m=31691073&l=0&r=0&s=OPL&t=LIST#JX3ekC2CxsVf84Vp.99
Has the vertical emitting laser been completed yet. That is goal number 3 on the OPEL presentation. There was a posting on stockhouse that says it was completed yet i don't see that on the OPEL website. Ideas?
Just passed Brnm,coming from oostDK plenty of rain and mud,much better here
Thanks, I enjoyed my 'vacation' LOL
Glad to be away from the BS on Ihub...
Now I'm back in the mud... knee-high ;)
Insiders buying can be found here: http://canadianinsider.com/node/7?ticker=opl
Insider buying? Stockhouse seems to feel like there are Canadian insiders buying? How do we know that?
Welcome on board FJ ;)
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Second road map: 'OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION OF HIGH SPEED CIRCUITS'
http://www.odisinc.com/documents/WhitePaper28Mar11_Si_Photonics_vs_POET.pdf
ODIS Inc. Progresses Toward a POET Technology Roadmap
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