Director/PDMR Shareholding

IQE plc

("IQE" or the "Company")


Directors' Dealings and total voting rights

06 May 2011

IQE announces that to facilitate the planned closure of an employee benefit
trust that was established in 2001 as part of an all employee share-saving
scheme, the following transactions were undertaken by Directors of the Company
on 6 May 2011:

Dr A W Nelson acquired 1,610 Ordinary Shares transferred from the IQE General
Employee Benefit Trust at a price of 107.3 pence per Ordinary Share. Following
this transaction, Dr Nelson's total beneficial interest in the Company has
increased to 27,482,913 Ordinary Shares representing 5.25% of the issued share
capital of the Company.

Dr H R Williams acquired 1,342 Ordinary Shares transferred from the IQE General
Employee Benefit Trust at a price of 107.3 pence per Ordinary Share. Following
this transaction, Dr Williams' total beneficial interest in the Company has
increased to 678,342 Ordinary Shares representing 0.12% of the issued share
capital of the Company.

Following the exercise of options by employees of IQE, the total number of
Ordinary Shares in issue as at 6 May 2011 is 522,902,846. All of  these Ordinary
Shares carry voting rights  of one vote per share. There are no Ordinary Shares
held in treasury and so the total number of voting rights in the Company is
currently 522,902,846.

The  above  figures  may  be  used  by  shareholders  as the denominator for the
calculations  by which they will determine if  they are required to notify their
interest  in, or a change to their  interest in, the Company under the Financial
Service Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

The Ordinary Shares referred to above are the ordinary shares of 1 pence each in
the Company.

Contacts:

IQE plc ([phone])

Chris Meadows
Phil Rasmussen

Espirito Santo Investment Bank (+ 44 20 7456 9191)

Richard Crawley
James Bromhead








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