KOPN Kopin Corporation

Kopin Corporation (Nasdaq: KOPN), a leading supplier of advanced semiconductor products and microdisplays for mobile applications including smartphones, tablet PCs, military thermal weapons sights and wearable computers, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 25, 2011.

Financial Highlights

Total revenues increased 4 percent to $31.4 million from $30.2 million for the same quarter of last year. III-V revenue increased to $16.0 million, compared with $15.9 million in the second quarter of 2010. Display revenue increased to $15.4 million from $14.3 million for the same quarter last year.

Gross margin increased to $10.5 million, or 35 percent of product revenues, compared with $7.3 million, or 25 percent of product revenues, for the comparable period of 2010.

Operating expenses were $31.0 million in the second quarter of 2011, compared with $30.9 million in the second quarter of 2010. R&D expenses were $7.1 million, or 23 percent of revenues, compared with $4.9 million, or 16 percent of revenues, in the second quarter of 2010, reflecting Kopin’s investments in its Golden-i technology, III-V smartphone products and capacity expansion, military display products, and the inclusion of Forth Dimension Display’s (FDD) expenses. Selling, general and administration (S,G&A) expenses were $4.7 million in the second quarter of 2011, compared with $4.2 million for the same period of last year. The increase in S,G&A expenses is attributable to the inclusion of FDD’s expenses.

Net income was $0.8 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2011 compared with $1.9 million, or $0.03 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2010. Net income for the second quarter of 2010 included a $1.9 million gain from the sale of investments and a $0.7 million gain related to foreign currency fluctuations. Kopin’s 2011 second quarter results included a net gain of $0.4 million from the sale of investments and a net loss of $0.3 million from foreign currency fluctuations.

Kopin’s cash and marketable securities balance at the end of the second quarter was $99.3 million and no long-term debt.

“Our second-quarter operating results reflect a continuation of the strategy we set forth at the beginning of the year – balancing short-term financial performance with a focus on long-term growth,” said Kopin President and Chief Executive Officer Dr. John C.C. Fan. “We are in the enviable position of having strong growth projections for our III-V products, the opportunity to add a new military display product category, night vision systems, to our current portfolio of thermal weapon sight products and the development of a potentially game-changing, hands-free wireless industrial computing product in Golden-i. Because of the current strong growth of smart phones, the requirement for those competing for an award of the Enhanced Night Vision program in 2012 to provide qualification units in 2011 and our drive to be a leader in voice activated cloud computing, these opportunities have required significant investments this year.”

“Yet with all of our development efforts, through the first half of fiscal 2011 we have maintained strong operating results,” Dr. Fan said. “Overall our revenues are up 19%, with our III-V revenues up 10 percent over the same period last year as we head into what historically has been our strongest part of the year. Although the current federal budget situation has impacted the timing of display product sales, we expect another year of strong military revenues as evidenced by our recently announced $23.2 million in follow-on orders for the TWS Bridge (TWS-IIB) program. Our income from operations is $2.6 million for the first half of 2011 compared with a loss of $0.8 million through the same period last year, we have generated $3.5 million in cash flow from operating activities and repurchased $1.9 million of our common stock.”

Smartphones Continue to Drive III-V Business

“Our III-V technology is helping to drive the rapid adoption of advanced 3G and 4G technologies across the major smartphone and tablet platforms,” Dr. Fan said. “These advanced new devices not only require more III-V transistors, but structures that are more technologically complex and challenging to produce. As these phones continue to become more complex, Kopin is benefitting with higher and higher dollar content per handset. Our ability to produce these advanced products in volume and at a competitive price is simply unmatched in the industry.”

Display Business Excels through System Expertise

“Just as with our III-V business, our display customers also require products that are technologically more complex to produce,” Dr. Fan said. “The trend today is toward full system solutions, including displays, backlights, optics, ASIC chips, hardware and software. Once again this trend plays to our strength, as we believe that our decades of technology expertise and display system manufacturing experience differentiate us in the market.”

Golden-i Program on Schedule

“Together with our business partner Motorola Solutions, we continue to make excellent progress in bringing our Golden-i® hands-free mobile computing solution to market in 2012,” Dr. Fan said. “Initial response to field tests of Golden-i by select customers has been extremely positive. Golden-i was demonstrated this month at the Microsoft® -hosted Imagine Cup 2011 in New York and the World Future 2011 in Vancouver.”

Business Outlook

“With revenues for the first six months of 2011 at $66 million and the third and fourth quarters traditionally our strongest, we are on course to achieve our full-year revenue guidance of $130 million to $140 million,” Dr. Fan said. “Robust smartphone demand should continue to fuel our III-V business, just as the TWS-IIB and a number of military R&D programs are expected to generate momentum for our display unit.”

Financial Results Conference Call

In conjunction with its second-quarter 2011 financial results, Kopin will host a teleconference call for investors and analysts at 5:00 p.m. ET today. To participate, please dial (877) 407-5790 (U.S. and Canada) or (201) 689-8328 (International). The call will also be available as a live and archived audio webcast on the “Investors” section of the Kopin website, www.kopin.com.

About Kopin Corporation

Kopin Corporation's voice-activated, wireless, hands-free Golden-i® mobile computing headsets, power-efficient, ultra-small liquid crystal displays, and heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) are revolutionizing the way people around the world see, hear and communicate. Kopin has shipped more than 30 million displays for a range of consumer and military applications including digital cameras, personal video eyewear, camcorders, thermal weapon sights and night vision systems. The innovative Golden-i computing headsets are generating strong interest in industrial, medical, military, homeland security and utility applications. The Company's unique HBTs help to enhance battery life, talk time and signal clarity, and have been integrated into billions of wireless handsets as well as into WiFi, VoIP and high-speed Internet data transmission systems. Kopin's proprietary display, Golden-i and III-V technologies are protected by more than 200 global patents and patents pending. For more information, please visit Kopin's website at www.kopin.com.

Kopin, CyberDisplay, Golden-i and The NanoSemiconductor Company are trademarks of Kopin Corporation.

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Forward-Looking Statements

Statements in this news release may be considered “forward-looking” statements under the “Safe Harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These include, without limitation, statements relating to: the strong growth projections for our III-V products, the opportunity to add a new military display product category, night vision systems, and the development of a game-changing, hands-free wireless industrial computing product in Golden-I; the third and fourth quarters being historically our strongest part of the year; our expectation of another year of strong military revenues; our expectation of bringing our Golden-i® hands-free mobile computing solution to market in 2012; our belief that the development of Golden-i is potentially game-changing; our belief that with revenues for the first six months of 2011 at $66 million and the third and fourth quarters traditionally our strongest, we are on course to achieve our full-year revenue guidance of $130 million to $140 million; our expectation that robust smartphone demand should continue to fuel our III-V business; and our expectation that the TWS-IIB and a number of military R&D programs should generate momentum for our display unit. These statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the potential that: the smartphone market will not grow as expected; we may not be awarded a contract to buy our night vision system products, the U.S. government may reduce procurement of thermal weapon sights; the Company’s efforts to roll out Golden-i may be delayed or might be unsuccessful; the Company may be unable to produce the night vision systems or Golden-i in the necessary volumes; the relationship between Kopin and its Golden-i technology partners may not be successful, or prospective customers may be unwilling to purchase the product; the Company’s 2011 revenue expectations will turn out to be wrong; manufacturing, marketing or other issues may prevent either the adoption or rapid acceptance of products; the Company will be adversely affected by competitive products and pricing; new product initiatives and other research and development efforts may not be successful; the Company could experience the loss of significant customers; costs to produce the Company’s microdisplay and HBT products will increase significantly, or that yields will decline; military programs or funding for military programs involving Kopin’s products will be delayed or cancelled; the Company’s military and commercial customers might be unable to ramp production volumes of its products, or that the Company’s product forecasts will turn out to be wrong; manufacturing delays, technical issues, economic conditions or external factors may prevent the Company from achieving its financial guidance; potential claims or liability could arise as a result of the Company’s restatement of its financial statements; the Company could have additional write-downs of its equity investment or charges related to its investments in other companies, including FDD, KTC and Kowon; and other risk factors and cautionary statements listed in the Company’s periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the 12 months ended December 25, 2010, and the Company’s subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made. The Company undertakes no responsibility to update any of these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this report.

  Kopin Corporation Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (Unaudited)       Three Months Ended   Six Months Ended   June 25, 2011 June 26, 2010 June 25, 2011 June 26, 2010 Revenues: Product revenues $ 29,597,668 $ 29,129,931 $ 62,518,659 $ 53,006,291 Research and development revenues   1,833,289     1,059,226     3,846,790     2,636,851   31,430,957 30,189,157 66,365,449 55,643,142 Expenses: Cost of product revenues 19,115,190 21,854,777 41,061,802 39,392,724 Research and development 7,139,559 4,858,868 13,524,308 9,154,775 Selling, general and administrative   4,697,648     4,215,001     9,142,794     7,857,535     30,952,397     30,928,646     63,728,904     56,405,034   Income (loss) from operations 478,560 (739,489 ) 2,636,545 (761,892 )   Other income and (expense), net   420,491     3,096,760     515,325     4,098,264     Income before provision for income taxes, equity loss in 899,051 2,357,271 3,151,870 3,336,372 unconsolidated affiliate and net loss (income) from noncontrolling interest   Provision for income taxes   (97,500 )   (180,000 )   (195,500 )   (93,000 )   Income before equity loss in unconsolidated affiliate and net 801,551 2,177,271 2,956,370 3,243,372 loss (income) from noncontrolling interest   Equity loss in unconsolidated affiliate   (43,599 )   (89,858 )   (154,238 )   (182,586 )   Income before net loss (income) of noncontrolling interest 757,952 2,087,413 2,802,132 3,060,786   Net loss (income) attributable to noncontrolling interest   43,872     (226,636 )   65,399     (163,018 )   Net income $ 801,824   $ 1,860,777   $ 2,867,531   $ 2,897,768     Net income per share: Basic $ 0.01   $ 0.03   $ 0.04   $ 0.04   Diluted $ 0.01   $ 0.03   $ 0.04   $ 0.04     Weighted average number of common shares outstanding: Basic   64,528,623     66,625,637     64,632,732     66,606,789   Diluted   65,774,967     67,357,297     65,715,021     67,333,967     Kopin Corporation Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited)   June 25, 2011   December 25, 2010 ASSETS Current assets: Cash and marketable securities $ 99,327,344 $ 110,947,390 Accounts receivable, net 20,224,725 17,489,348 Inventory 19,114,320 21,462,871 Prepaid and other current assets   2,781,233     2,725,153   Total current assets 141,447,622 152,624,762   Equipment and improvements, net 35,810,203 32,613,961 Other assets   14,757,134     6,857,675   Total assets $ 192,014,959   $ 192,096,398   LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY Current liabilities: Accounts payable $ 8,092,099 $ 11,317,865 Accrued expenses 6,813,412 5,997,646 Billings in excess of revenue earned   2,604,774     3,210,895   Total current liabilities 17,510,285 20,526,406   Lease commitments 1,284,354 944,617   Total Kopin Corporation stockholders' equity 168,352,945 165,835,919 Noncontrolling interest   4,867,375     4,789,456 Total stockholders' equity   173,220,320     170,625,375 Total liabilities and stockholders' equity $ 192,014,959   $ 192,096,398   Kopin Corporation Supplemental Information (Unaudited)       Three Months Ended   Six Months Ended   June 25, 2011 June 26, 2010 June 25, 2011 June 26, 2010 Display Revenues by Category (in millions) Military Application $ 9.2 $ 10.1 $ 20.2 $ 16.4 Consumer Electronics Applications 4.5 3.3 9.0 6.5 Research and Development   1.7   0.9   3.6   2.3 Total $ 15.4 $ 14.3 $ 32.8 $ 25.2     Stock-Based Compensation Expense Cost of product revenues $ 173,000 $ 174,000 $ 297,000 $ 292,000 Research and development 175,000 111,000 289,000 184,000 Selling, general and administrative   563,000   385,000   885,000   698,000 Total $ 911,000 $ 670,000 $ 1,471,000 $ 1,174,000   Other Financial Information Depreciation and amortization $ 1,886,000 1,847,000 $ 3,813,000 $ 3,697,000 Capital expenditures $ 3,865,000 $ 4,317,000 Treasury stock purchases $ 1,907,000 $ -