Your two BIG issues are not "BIG" to some of us.
As you yourself said the interaction between the potential "partners" is about data. You are correct in that we don't and can't know when the data will be enough. Could be weeks could be months. I don't see it as a BIG issue. Data, data data. I see it as a strong positive they are asking and it'll happen.
Next you say it's a BIG issue to find a foundry that the potential partner will work with. This is again not a BIG issue. Maybe, as you claim, only one has been successful to date but hardly equates to bigger foundries needing to start from scratch. Engineers at Lightwave logically learned a lot working with AMF and others. I'm also in the belief that AMF would probably be happy to share their process to a larger foundry for the right amount of $$$. ANY large foundry could be up and running producing in record time.
You need to think more out of the box for success rather than everything is doom and gloom or impossible to get done.
All of your posts are mostly looking for the negative and as I predicted the naysayers would nit-pick the presentation apart.
So ..
I addressed your BIG issues and as usual you can have the last say with your negativity.
Jorge
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