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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 1999 by Syre, Steven ^Stein, Charles
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 16 -- QUIET KOPIN'S TECHNOLOGY SET TO MAKE NOISE AT LAST: Kopin Corp. is a small technology company with no profits and a stock that has tripled in price since June.
An Internet company, right? Wrong. Internet companies are born hot. Kopin, which is based in Taunton, has been plugging away for 15 years, mostly in obscurity. It has taken that long for the company's scientists to find real-world applications for their Buck Rogers technology.
"I think our technology was ahead of the market," says John Fan, Kopin's patient founder and chief executive.
Fan and a handful of others left MIT's Lincoln Laboratories in 1984 to start Kopin. Their goal was to make semiconductors using a technique with...
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