Holding(s) in Company

IQE PLC
04 January 2008


                                    IQE plc

                          (the ''Company'' or ''IQE'')

                             Holding(s) in Company



The Company was informed on 3 January 2008 that Strathclyde Pension Fund had a
notifiable interest of 13,421,084 ordinary shares in IQE, being 3.11% of the
issued share capital of the Company.

The total number of the Company's ordinary shares in issue is 430,952,266. The
ordinary shares referred to above are the ordinary shares of 1 pence each.


Contacts

IQE plc                                          [phone]
Leslie Coventry

Noble & Company Limited                          [phone]
John Llewellyn-Lloyd
Andy Yeo




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