IQE
IQE PLC is a British semiconductor company founded 1988 in Cardiff, Wales, which manufactures advanced epitaxial wafers for a wide range of technology applications for wireless, optoelectronic, electronic and solar devices. IQE specialises in advanced silicon and compound semiconductor materials based on gallium arsenide (GaAs), indium phosphide (InP), gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon. The company is the largest independent outsource producer of epiwafers manufactured by metalorganic vapour phase epitaxy (MOCVD), molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD).
| Company type | Public |
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Traded as | AIM: IQE |
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | 1988 in Cardiff, Wales, UK |
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| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Global |
Key people | Americo Lemos (CEO) |
| Products | Epitaxial wafers |
| Revenue | £167.5 million (2021) |
| £−72.9 million (2021) | |
Net income | £−74.5 million (2021) |
| Total assets | £296.1 million (2021) |
| Total equity | £175.1 million (2021) |
Number of employees | 685 (end 2021) |
| Website | iqep |
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The company is headquartered in Cardiff with an Innovation Centre and factories in Newport, Wales, Cardiff, Wales and Milton Keynes in the United Kingdom; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Taunton, Massachusetts, and Greensboro, North Carolina in the United States; and Taiwan in Asia.