Industry Award Win

12 Jul 2005 07:30

IQE PLC12 July 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12 July 2005 IQE plc IQE plc (IQE), the leading global outsource supplier of customised epitaxialwafers to the semiconductor industry, is pleased to announce that its IQESilicon business is the winner of the "Enabling Materials" section of theEurosemi IC Industry Awards 2005 to be presented at Semicon West in SanFrancisco later this week. The Company was nominated for its world leading work on bulk strained siliconsubstrates and won the award based on votes received from within thesemiconductor industry. Group CEO Drew Nelson and IQE Silicon Sales Manager AliHoy are in San Francisco to receive the award. Dr Nelson commented: "We are delighted to have received this prestigious award, particularly since itdemonstrates that IQE is clearly acknowledged as a world leader in new andexciting materials technologies such as strained silicon. I would like to thankeveryone involved, especially the team at our Silicon division in Cardiff,Wales, whose hard work has established IQE's reputation for innovation andexcellence in the field of advanced materials". Contacts: IQE plc Tel: +44 (0) 29 2083 9400 Chris Meadows, Investor Relations Buchanan Communications Tel: +44 (0)20 7466 5000 Tim Thompson, Nicola Cronk Notes to editors: Further details of the award can be seen on the Eurosemi IC Industry Awardswebsite at http://www.eurosemi.eu.com/awards2/results.htm. For more information on IQE's UltraSmooth Strained Silicon products, visitwww.iqesilicon.com. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange