IQE plc
IQE is the leading global supplier of advanced semiconductor wafers with products covering a diverse range of applications, supported by an innovative outsourced foundry services portfolio allowing the Group to provide a 'one stop shop' for the wafer needs of the world's leading semiconductor manufacturers. IQE uses advanced crystal growth technology (epitaxy) to manufacture and supply bespoke semiconductor wafers ('epi-wafers') to major chip manufacturing companies, who use our wafers to make chips which form the key components of virtually all high technology systems. IQE is unique in being able to supply wafers using all the leading crystal growth technology platforms. with a manufacturing footprint across Europe, USA and Asia. IQE's products are found in many leading-edge consumer, communication, computing and industrial applications, including a complete range of wafer products for the wireless industry, such as mobile handsets and wireless infrastructure, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, base stations, GPS, and satellite communications; optical communications, optical storage (CD, DVD), laser optical mouse, laser printers & photocopiers, thermal imagers, leading-edge medical products, barcode, ultra high brightness LEDs, a variety of advanced silicon based systems and high efficiency concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar cells. IQE operates facilities in Cardiff (UK), Milton Keynes (UK), Bethlehem (PA, USA), Greensboro (NC, USA), Taunton (MA, USA) and Taiwan (Asia).www.iqep.com
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Oct 30, 2026
Paul ScottHOST
It's always quiet on Fridays, isn't it? Tech things are selling off again because of the US side of things.
Paul ScottHOST
So IQE and Raspberry Pi are quite closely linked to sentiment on NASDAQ.
Paul ScottHOST
They're both off down between 5% and 7% today.
Paul ScottHOST
Both very difficult to value.
Frank HolmesGUEST
And the thing that Godfrey and I did from the very outset was take equity positions in clients and so forth.
Frank HolmesGUEST
So, you know, for example, IQE was one of our earliest clients.
Frank HolmesGUEST
Peter's Foods we invested in when we bought it back from Grand Met.
Frank HolmesGUEST
And Newport Wafer 5 I've invested in when we bought it back from the Germans.
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Frank HolmesGUEST
Then I had the chance to do it again in 2017 when it had been up for sale for a while.
Frank HolmesGUEST
Nobody bought it.
Frank HolmesGUEST
And to be fair, Drew Nelson of IQE, an old client, approached us and jumped in, raised the money with Welsh government and others to save it effectively.
Frank HolmesGUEST
And we bought it and sold it several years later.
CraigHOST
extrapolated retention beyond a thousand years and extremely low switching energy per unit area.
CraigHOST
Meanwhile, IQE has scaled production of the specialized compound semiconductor layers used to build it, The attraction is obvious.
CraigHOST
One technology could eventually blur the boundary between RAM and storage while reducing energy spent moving data.
CraigHOST
What remains unclear is whether engineers can reproduce those properties in dense, reliable, affordable arrays fabricated at commercial scale.