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Technology Stocks : Kopin Corp. (KOPN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kinkblot who wrote (1111)	2/12/2000 1:48:00 PM
From: kinkblot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1820

Making money, the easy way. In yesterday's IBD "New America" profile of Kopin (page A9), some words were used in a way that might be misinterpreted by some investors. For example, one should understand that when Fan says Kopin "makes 40 to 80 cents per phone" on its HBT wafers, he's talking about revenues, not earnings. From Conexant's earnings report for the quarter ended 12/31/99: During the quarter, the Wireless Communications Division shipped more than 15 million digital cellular power amplifiers for code-division multiple access (CDMA) and global system for mobile communications (GSM) handsets. Call it 40 cents revenue per phone that Kopin makes. That would correspond to about 6 million worth of business from Conexant in the latest quarter, which looks about right. Likewise when "Fan says Kopin can make $15-$20 each on providing flat-panel displays on [future] phones." This projected revenue per display is higher than for the JVC camcorder viewfinder and other applications that require just the panel without the module. WT