Holding(s) in Company

IQE PLC
02 August 2006


IQE plc

2 August 2006
                                    IQE plc

                          (the ''Company'' or ''IQE'')

                            Notification of Interest


The Company has been informed by a letter dated 1 August 2006 that following the
sale of 5,181,053 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company, the Canada Life
Group of Companies no longer has a notifiable interest in the issued share
capital of the Company.


Contacts

IQE plc                                   [phone]
Leslie Coventry

Noble & Company Limited                   [phone]
John Llewellyn-Lloyd
Graeme Bayley




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