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Richard Williamson

IQE - Optimising its MBE footprint

IQE has announced that it will be closing its Singapore site by mid-2022 and transferring activity to its sites in North Carolina and Taiwan. The move will generate estimated annualised cash cost savings of c £4.8m so we have revised our FY22 estimates, raising adjusted EPS by 8%. Importantly it helps create an optimised platform for pursuing volume opportunities for MBE epitaxy used for long-wavelength VCSELs and healthcare applications.
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IQE plc

IQE is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of semiconductor materials. Co.'s primary business is the manufacture of compound semiconductor wafers or epiwafers using a process called epitaxy. Co.'s primary reporting segments are: Wireless, which covers electronic devices that communicate wirelessly; Photonics, which covers applications that either emit or detect light; Infrared, which uses indium antimonide and gallium antimonide engineered materials that enable high resolution Infrared systems; and CMOS++, which combines the properties of compound semiconductors with silicon.

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Richard Williamson

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