Leading UK semiconductor firm up for sale

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Sept. 15, 2025 – 

By Nick Flaherty, eeNews Europe

A leading UK semiconductor firm has put itself up for sale and is in negotiations with a buyer.

IQE in Wales makes wafer substrates for companies to build compound semiconductor lasers, photonics chips and gallium nitride (GaN) chips for RF and power applications. Compound semiconductors are a key area for the UK’s semiconductor strategy and the loss of IQE would be a significant blow to the strategy.

This comes as RISC-V core and tool developer Codasip in Germany is also up for sale, marking the potential loss of another sovereign European technology supplier.

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