Additional Listing

IQE PLC
19 December 2007



                            IQE plc ('the Company')

                               Additional Listing


Application has today been made to the London Stock Exchange for 53,672 ordinary
shares of 1p each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') to be admitted to trading
on AIM. The Ordinary Shares are being issued pursuant to the exercise of share
options by a former employee under the IQE Group Share Option Scheme. The
Ordinary Shares are issued at the following prices:


       Number of Ordinary Shares                                  Price of issue
                 8,573                                                5.633p
                 29,599                                               6.670p
                 7,500                                                7.100p
                 8,000                                               14.000p





Admission of these Ordinary Shares is expected to become effective on 24
December 2007.



Following this issue the total number of Ordinary Shares in issue will be
430,952,266.



For further information, please contact:



Leslie Coventry, IQE plc                                02920 839 400

John Llewellyn-Lloyd / Sam Reynolds, Noble & Company    020 7763 2200




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