{"id":1033851,"date":"2026-09-08T07:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T01:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033851"},"modified":"2026-09-08T07:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T01:50:46","slug":"uks-iqe-swings-to-first-half-profit-and-sees-more-ai-data-centre-upside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/08\/uks-iqe-swings-to-first-half-profit-and-sees-more-ai-data-centre-upside\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s IQE swings to first-half profit and sees more AI data centre upside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British chip components maker IQE swung to a first-half core profit and maintained its annual outlook on Monday, as rising demand linked to AI and \u200cdata centres continued \u2060to support \u2060growth. <\/p>\n<p>After a slowdown in the electronics market and disruption linked to U.S. tariffs, the Wales-based \u200bcompany has benefited from increased spending on AI infrastructure. That prompted IQE to raise its annual revenue \u200bguidance in July. <\/p>\n<p>IQE supplies epitaxy for wafers that are later used to make lasers deployed in data centres, placing it near the start of the AI \u200bdata-centre supply chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British chip components maker IQE swung to a first-half core profit and maintained its annual outlook on Monday, as rising demand linked to AI and \u200cdata centres continued \u2060to support \u2060growth. After a slowdown in the electronics market and disruption linked to U.S. tariffs, the Wales-based \u200bcompany has benefited from increased spending on AI infrastructure. That prompted IQE to raise its annual revenue \u200bguidance in July. IQE supplies epitaxy for wafers that are later used to make lasers deployed in data centres, placing it near the start of the AI \u200bdata-centre supply chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033853,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033851\/revisions\/1033853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}