IQE is the leading global outsource supplier of customized epitaxial wafers to the semiconductor industry.

Their technology is of most advanced like AFM means Atomic Force Microscopy and moves a minuscule cantilever over an objects surface, a sharp tip passes over dips or rises punched in the surface and reads out digital information. This technology is not going to slow down it is going to speed up and has to replace most existing forms of memory storage by virtue of capacity and size.

The future of nano-technology, these tiny/minute robots would need very small processors and most sure strained silicon could provide these.

The low share price is due to uncertainty as to when the cash will run out, but I don't think this will happen as cash is of 12 to 15M and NAV of 30p, and losses are going to drop on the next 3 month and we could have profits on the Q4 2004.

Latest news from the Chairman were" The Group remains confident that it is in a strong position within the outsourcing market, although the protection of its cash position is paramount.
With a broad product portfolio allowing the customer base to use IQE as a 'one stop shop', a large available production capacity and a strong balance sheet, the Board believes the Group will benefit strongly as the overall semiconductor industry recovers and will continue to strengthen its position as the leading outsource supplier of advanced wafer products to the sector. "

Nearly all the recent results have been encouraging. Q4 accounts are being completed (30th Dec 2002). IQE know where they stand, if things had got worse their would have been a trading statement by now, and with Amberwave (IQE's partner) increasing its Asian presence, this is a bullish trend and a good point to pick up the shares @ 4.25p

Intraday

5 month MA and Indicators

http://uk.advfn.com/cmn/fbb/thread.php3?id=32407192&from=212

Anything catch ones eye on the monthly performers well, IQE for a start and Redde.

Panto do you have a twin brother or do you have a split personality???????????

goldfinger

Are you stup.. or you were born stup..

What advfn has to do with moneyam nickname
a couple days ago you were trying to be friendly, today the drink, drugs and everything else you take got you on the wrong side of the road.

Stop interfering
"Skinny" only got what has been asking for on being cheeky, I hope is man enough to say so if not happy
re - spammer ( post the same thing, moneyam - advfn and III ) hundreds a day

I hope you do not want me to post the link to the collection of what people think about you at ADVFN ( you should be ashame of yourself ) do not pick on me, I only repply to your nastiness

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it seems - Master RSI - selects shares at the right time to make money so far this month, on looking at your link,
GRPH 50.50p
QPP 160.50p
IQE 16.625p
REDD 54.50p
VLK 40.50p



and has been doing it for years on looking further at other monthly and weekly threats during the years

Panto, youve been sprung.

Theirs only one drugy on here and its you, thats why half the time you post in pidgeon English. Your stoned out of your head.

LOL master RSI making money LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL he was chased off sharecrazy as a cheat for ramping and telling porkies about stocks , false RNS etc etc.

WE KNOW ITS YOU. WE KNOW YOUR USING A PROXY SERVER. Ive reported you to Mike and provided the evidence.

Ohh and by the way if you want to call me stupid to my face just name a time and a place and Ill be there.

goldfinger

the only thing I can say is you are a big LIAR on you ranting, and only can be - 13 Aug 2014 03:01 - at this time of the morning following's yesterday's - the drink, drugs and everything else you take.

re - he was chased off sharecrazy
Panto - never was at sharecrazy

re - Ohh and by the way if you want to call me stupid to my face just name a time and a place and Ill be there.

I hope you carry the wheelchair with you, so I can take you to the ..........Private Rehab Clinic

re - stupid
If you talk stupid is cos you are stupid
so stop acting like one

No your right Panto was never at sharecrazy but Master RSI and a dozen alias were and in the end were chased off the site for ramping using false RNS details, times, and numbers.

The offer still stands.

I will investigate about that

I know well - Master RSI - and had good relationship during the time at - sharecrazy - to the end, though did not post as the place for a long time now as it was getting lonely ( hardly any posters ), not much better over here lately, though the information is much better.

You only speculate I would say, as usual no prove of that.

re - The offer still stands.

with wheelchair or without?
My sparing parner has told me you only need a "kipper" on your face to Knock you out

Threatening Physical Violence now panto, when I said I wanted to meet you I meant to have a man to man talk and iron out our differences not have a fight. Now your threatening to knock me out.

Diplomacy will always be better than physical violence.

Posters on here I have copied the threat so you can see what type of aggresive person panto is. I urge you to report him to management.

Post copied......

panto - 13 Aug 2014 10:37 - 962 of 962

I will investigate about that

I know well - Master RSI - and had good relationship during the time at - sharecrazy - to the end, though did not post as the place for a long time now as it was getting lonely ( hardly any posters ), not much better over here lately, though the information is much better.

You only speculate I would say, as usual no prove of that.

re - The offer still stands.

with wheelchair or without?
My sparing parner has told me you only need a "kipper" on your face to Knock you out

I am so very pleased I sold this share (and at a profit) and therefore no longer need to read this board for updated news and sensible views.

Hardly worth bothering then panto

Is there a link between these two?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29066210

http://www.iqep.com/news-2011/dec_08_11.asp

Blackrock reduces short

Notice of interim results

Cardiff, UK - 10 September 2014: IQE plc (AIM: IQE), the leading global supplier of advanced semiconductor wafer products and wafer services to the semiconductor industry, will be publishing its results for the half year ended 30 June 2014 on Tuesday, 16 September 2014.

Drew Nelson, Chief Executive Officer, and Phil Rasmussen, Finance Director, will present the results to analysts at 9.30am on Tuesday, 16 September 2014 at the offices of Broker Profile, Augustine House, 6A Austin Friars, City of London, Greater London EC2N 2HA.

Memorandum of understanding to establish a Centre of Excellence for Compound Semiconductor technology in Singapore

Cardiff, UK, 15 September 2014: IQE plc (AIM: IQE, "IQE" or the "Group") announces that it has entered into a Memorandum Of Understanding ("MOU") with WIN Semiconductors Corp ("WIN") and Nanyang Technological University ("NTU") to participate in the formation of a centre of excellence for the development of compound semiconductor technology in Singapore.

The MOU anticipates the creation of a new entity called the Compound Semiconductor Development Centre (CSDC), which will be jointly owned by IQE, WIN, NTU, local management and key academics.

more...

IQE plc : Continued growth in underlying earnings despite customer inventory de-stocking. Good progress with restructuring

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

EBITDA up 6% to £11.1m (H1 2013: £10.5m)
Revenues down 17% to £52.0m (H1 2013: £63.0m) reflecting inventory de-stocking and strength of sterling
Wireless demand recovered during Q2 from customer inventory de-stocking
Photonics H1 2014 revenues up 22% on H1 2013 in constant currency to £10.1m
Adjusted PBT up 11% to £5.6m (H1 2013: £5.1m)
Reported LBT of £2.3m after £4.8m non-cash exceptionals and £3.1m cash cost of restructuring.
Adjusted basic EPS increases 10% from 0.82p to 0.90p (reported basic EPS of -0.92p)
Net debt £35.5m (December 2013: £34.4m)
Note: EBITDA and the adjusted profit measures exclude non-cash charges for share based payments, non-cash acquisition related charges and exceptional items as detailed in note 5.

BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS

Clear leadership position in wireless supply chain as industry consolidation continues
Strong and sustainable photonics growth reflects significant contract wins
Benefits of restructuring programme beginning to come through in H1 2014
Restructuring largely complete, with further benefits to be seen in H2 2014 and thereafter
Signed MOU on collaboration to create specialist R&D centre of excellence in Singapore.
Significant technical and commercial milestones in GaN technology

Looking at the chart, it hasn't been so low since 2009, maybe time to have a look again. There is a little support at this price 12.625p

Directors buying 3.3M shares yesterday @ 12.75p

Directors Share Purchases and Finance Facility - 14 October 2014

IQE plc (IQE or the' Company'), the leading supplier of Advanced Semiconductors Wafer products to the Global Semiconductor market, has received notification from the Executive Directors that they have purchased a total of 3.3 million ordinary shares in IQE plc at 12.75p per share.

In order to fund the purchase of the shares and to satisfy income tax obligations following the exercise of share options announced on the 10th October, the Directors have entered into loan agreements and have transferred a total of 18 million existing shares as security.

The Directors are required to redeem the transferred shares at maturity when the loan is repaid at the end of the three year term. Under the terms of the facility, the lender is prohibited from short selling or voting the shares during the term of the loan.

The loan facility has been arranged , and the funding provided, by Equities First Holdings, a securities based capital provider of finance for private and institutional investors.

What directors buying has done to share price now 13.875p

Name	No. of Ordinary Shares prior tooption exercise	OptionExercise	No. of Ordinary Sharespurchased	No. ofOrdinary Shares after exercise and purchase	Ordinary Shares as a % of ISC
Dr. Drew Nelson, CEO	28,658,465	4,800,753	1,800,000	35,259,218	5.36%
Phillip Rasmussen, CFO	852,822	1,870,535	750,000	3,473,357	0.53%
Dr. Howard Williams, COO	1,672,430	1,870,535	750,000	4,292,965	0.65%

Not surprised. The falls here have been ludicrously overdone.

Further rise on some good press this morning

"IQE, a maker of so-called “semiconductor wafers” used in wireless electronics, was lifted 2¼p to 14¾p - an 18pc surge - by director share purchases, which are usually taken as a sign of confidence. The chief executive, finance chief and chief operating officer have between them bought 3.3m shares at 12¾p apiece."

Http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/marketreport/11162946/Market-report-Investor-pessimism-over-economy-rises.html


"Microchip shares, clobbered over the previous couple of days by a sales warning from a US peer, rallied after Skyworks Solutions, another American chip supplier, lifted quarterly forecasts. ARM Holdings recovered 31p to 853p, while IQE picked itself up from its lowest since 2009, jumping 18 per cent to 14¾p after directors bought shares."

Http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/markets/article4236829.ece

From Motley Fool. - last week

Vote of confidence

IQE shares have jumped following the news that three of the company's executives had all acquired large blocks of the company's shares on Monday. In particular, IQE's Chief Executive Officer brought 180,000 shares, the Financial Director brought 750,000 shares and the Executive Director brought 750,000 shares. At an average price of 12.75p these purchases amounted to a total of £214,200, an impressive vote of confidence in IQE's future.

But these purchases come after a troubled year for IQE. The company's shares have fallen by more than 40% year to date and are currently trading only just above the 52-week low of 12.50p reached last week.
However, it seems as if IQE's directors know exactly what they're doing. While the group recently reported first-half results that came in below expectations, IQE's outlook remains unchanged.

Specifically, for the first half IQE reported a pretax loss of £2.3m, compared to profit of £2.5m the previous year. This loss included £4.8m of non-cash exceptionals and £3.1m of restructuring costs. On an adjusted basis, after removing restructuring costs, the group's pre-tax profit rose by 11% during the period to £5.6m, from £5.1m as reported last year. Adjusted earnings per share increased to 0.86p, from 0.79p.

What's more, on an adjusted basis, excluding restructuring costs, City analysts expect IQE to report earnings per share of 2.22p this year, which means the company is currently trading at a forward P/E of 6.3. The City has earnings per share growth of 14% pencilled in for next year.