RNS Number:3713Q
IQE PLC
30 September 2003


                            IQE plc ("the Company")

                         Commencement of trading on AIM

The Company announces that its entire issued ordinary share capital today
started trading on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock
Exchange and its listing on the Official List was today cancelled.

30 September 2003

For further information, please contact:
Chris Meadows, IQE plc                                            02920 839400
Matthew Wood, Evolution Beeson Gregory Ltd                       020 7071 4300


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