Block Listing Application

IQE plc
("IQE" or the "Company")

1 December 2009

Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for a block
admission of 1,000,000 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company
('Ordinary Shares') to satisfy obligations under the Company's
existing Group Employee Share Option Scheme.  The shares will be
allotted and issued in due course in accordance with the rules of the
respective scheme and will rank pari passu in all respects with the
existing Ordinary Shares in issue.

It is expected that the block admission will become effective on 4
December 2009.


Contacts:

IQE plc ([phone])
Chris Meadows
Phil Rasmussen

Noble & Company Limited (+ 44 20 7763 2200)
John Llewellyn-Lloyd
Sam Reynolds

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