Acqn.from Fujitsu Limited

FILTRONIC PLC
2 August 1999

                                       
                FILTRONIC PLC:  UK ACQUISITION FROM FUJITSU LTD
        HEADS OF AGREEMENT TO PURCHASE SEMICONDUCTOR FACILITY IN DURHAM
                                       
Filtronic  plc  ('Filtronic'),  a world leader  in  microwave  technology  and
manufacturing  telecoms  components for cellular base  stations  and  cellular
handset  products, announces that it has entered into heads of agreement  with
Fujitsu  Limited  to  acquire its semiconductor facility at  Newton  Aycliffe,
County Durham for an undisclosed consideration.

The  agreement  is  conditional upon Filtronic receiving financial  assistance
from  the  Department of Trade and Industry ('DTI') on terms  satisfactory  to
Filtronic.  Completion is scheduled for the end of August.

The  Newton Aycliffe facility is 310,000 square feet in size situated on a 106
acre  site.   The  facility contains a very high quality 100,000  square  foot
Class  10  clean  room,  enabling  manufacture  of  advanced  high  resolution
semiconductors.

Filtronic  already  owns  a  first  class 3  inch  Gallium  Arsenide  ('GaAs')
fabrication  and  semiconductor design facility at a US subsidiary,  Filtronic
Solid  State ('FSS') in Santa Clara, acquired in October 1998.  Over the  last
several  months,  Filtronic has been looking at options  to  expand  its  GaAs
manufacturing  capacity.  Subject to obtaining appropriate  support  from  the
DTI,  Filtronic  believes that the Newton Aycliffe facility  offers  the  best
available  option.    Filtronic intends to utilise the  proprietary  materials
technology  and  design  expertise developed at FSS to establish  volume  GaAs
Pseudomorphic   High  Electron  Mobility  Transistor  ('PHEMT')  semiconductor
fabrication  at the Newton Aycliffe facility.  Manufacture at Newton  Aycliffe
will  be  on  6 inch GaAs wafers for sale as discrete semiconductors  and  for
incorporation into proprietary designed integrated products developed for  the
mobile cellular handset and wireless infrastructure markets.

Professor J David Rhodes, OBE FRS FREng, Executive Chairman of Filtronic  plc,
said:   'We  are delighted to agree terms with Fujitsu for the acquisition  of
such a high quality facility, which will rank amongst the first and largest  6
inch  GaAs  foundries in the world.  I believe that GaAs will  have  the  same
impact  on the information technology and communications revolution as silicon
has had in the past.'

He  added:   'The facility gives us the opportunity to utilise our outstanding
GaAs  materials  technology  in FSS and to apply it  to  volume  opportunities
presented  by  the cellular handset and wireless infrastructure  markets.   We
estimate that this development will lead to the creation of over 500 new  jobs
within  five years.  The acquisition is dependent upon financial support  from
the DTI.  We shall continue to work closely with the DTI and other members  of
the  local  economic support network who, to date, have all reacted positively
to our proposals, to complete the acquisition successfully.'

Enquiries:

Christopher Schofield, Director, Filtronic plc      01274 530622