Holding(s) in Company

IQE PLC
14 February 2007

IQE PLC
14 February 2007


                                    IQE plc

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

                            Notification of Interest


The Company has been informed by a letter dated 12 February 2007 that by virtue
of the sale of 885,000 ordinary 1p shares on 9 February 2007 Nortrust Nominees
Limited no longer had a notifiable interest in ordinary 1p shares in the
Company.




Contacts

IQE plc                                    [phone]
Leslie Coventry


Noble & Company Limited                    [phone]
John Llewellyn-Lloyd
Graeme Bayley




                      This information is provided by RNS
            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange