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No they didn't: That's an Uncrossing Trade, so multiple buys/sells from different parties aggregated together

From the announcement on 27th April "Conclusion of Strategic Review": "IQE expects to announce FY 2025 results in late May 2026."

So not much longer to wait.

Results (probably) this week; looking back at the last few years PFD usually puts out its results in mid-May - so later this coming week or early next (I don't think they've formally announced a specific results date). I'm looking forward to seeing what Q3's encouraging statement "Now expected to deliver full year Trading profit at the upper end of market expectations" translates to...

Reported in the Sheffield Star: "Sheffield manufacturing: Hydrogen specialist ITM Power to create 400 jobs in 'biggest ever' £120m investment"

https://www.thestar.co.uk/business/sheffield-manufacturing-hydrogen-specialist-itm-power-to-create-400-jobs-in-biggest-ever-ps120m-investment-6568156

@Tiger16: No, there really weren't. Looking at the volume graph I see an ordinary day's activity and a moderate uncrossing trade (UT) - so no "huge buys". You similarly asserted non-existent "massive buys" on 23rd Feb for Raspberry Pi (RPI): I'm a believer in both companies; I think both can stand on their own merits without such misinformation.

... but I've just noticed that RaspberryPi also talk about OpenClaw in another news article,

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-an-ai-agent-with-openclaw/

Amidst the froth about OpenClaw & friends where Raspberry Pi isn't the only option (as waccybaccy noted), there's a good article about the add-on board for Raspberry Pi's that can do the AI work itself (rather than just providing an interface to a cloud AI) - so this is a good read on where a Pi [with HAT +2] can shine for AI tasks,

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/when-and-why-you-might-need-the-raspberry-pi-ai-hat-plus-2/

Search for "When and why you might need the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2" if the above link gets mangled

Really? I see a moderately busy day's trading and doubt your assertion given your recent incorrect post about Friday's late trades.

I see that the closing uncrossing trade (UT) covered 113914 shares (buyers matched with sellers); checking back to 3pm the largest trade is 15000 shares (at 4pm) - so there are no "6 figure big sells here into close". Please (1) learn what an UT is and (2) don't exaggerate, you devalue anything else you say when you do so.

...and a further 1% sold today, so that's 12% of TUN shares sold this week, no RNS yet to tell us who's hoovering them up.

Noticing yesterday's and today's announcements of share sales totalling 11% of TUN shares, I'm wondering who'll show up as the buyer (that's too many shares to shift to smaller investors), the answer might be interesting re. TUN's future, particularly if the buyer has their own agenda...

Disappointing there wasn't a rights issue as part of the offer or similar entitlement for existing shareholders, but the company getting in £40m proceeds means that it'll no longer be struggling to pay day-to-day bills - indeed I sold most of my holding last year since there seemed to be a genuine risk of the company going bust back then, how different things look now.

I'm also glad to see the company now looking solvent to strengthen its position re. financing for the future, rather than being desperate for any deal no matter the long-term cost (CLN holders did particularly well from TUN being in a distressed position when those were setup, so now there's no need to see something like that repeated)

Looks like Canaccord are still selling; they had a 6.4% holding per their 15th September RNS, now down to 3.5%. That makes some sense of the determinedly-stuck-at-just-above-5p share price, presumably until they've sold the entire holding or we get some juicy news from IQE.

The Guardian has an article about this "UK launches critical minerals strategy to reduce dependency on China", which led to to the gov.uk piece "Vision 2035: Critical Minerals Strategy". Both Tungsten and Devon get mentioned, although not in the same sentence (Tungsten and Cornwall do get mentioned in the same sentence, grr!)

Search on the above titles if the links below get mangled for more,

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/23/uk-launches-critical-minerals-strategy-to-reduce-dependency-on-china

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-critical-minerals-strategy/vision-2035-critical-minerals-strategy

Updating this thread, it seems that Qualcomm are headed in a maker-hostile direction following their purchase of Arduino,

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/21/adafruit_makers_unhappy_with_arduino/

which probably bodes well for RPI...

Excellent find, thank you fairlysolvent! (direct link is https://www.faraday.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/FI_flow_battery_report_FINAL_16Oct2025.pdf but very easy to find anyway from the title)

Re. invitation to the White House: That would certainly be good news, but the included link just leads to this TUN share chat. When I search online I see there is the 'expression of interest' to potentially provide a $95m loan against future tungsten production, but that's far less exciting: Please post a link that works, I want to believe!

A thoughtful take on this:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/13/arduino_new_job/

Interesting news today that Qualcomm is buying Arduino,

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/qualcomm_arduino_acquisition/

For me that signals that Arduino - and by extension RPI - are hot property. I don't anticipate a takeover for RPI but I do think the market is undervaluing it. So I snapped up some more shares today in anticipation of this boosting RPI; of course the pessimistic view would be that the competition just got a boost - but maybe this is a good moment to decide if your RPI glass is half-empty or half-full...

Yes, I've very reluctantly sold most of my holding so that (having bought at an average of about 4p) I've exited with the money I put in and a small profit; the remainder is a gamble - but I don't want to leave this game entirely. I too am nervous when I see the CFO go, and so suddenly, when in theory it's the CFO who you'd expect to stick around most when the company is supposedly on the cusp of making it big. Seems like that milestone could be delayed :-(