5th November 2006

AIXTRON Equipment Order Intake Up 76% Year Over Year

AIXTRON AG announced its financial results for the nine months of 2006, ended September 30, 2006. Due to improved market confidence, the value of equipment orders received in the first nine months of 2006 rose substantially, by 76 percent, compared to the first nine months of 2005. The continued year-over-year increase was supported by a 6 percent sequential increase in equipment order intake, to € 52.3 m in the third quarter of 2006. Reflecting a significant rise in demand for semiconductor equipment, especially from the LED end application markets, order intake for compound semiconductor equipment rose year-over-year by 89 percent to € 101.9 m in the first nine months of 2006 and, based on robust demand for CVD equipment, the value of orders received for silicon semiconductor equipment in the first nine months of 2006 rose by 44 percent year over year, to € 31.6 m.

Paul Hyland, President and CEO at AIXTRON, commented: “We are particularly pleased at being able to present yet another quarter of improving profit, increased cash, growing order intake, reduced costs, better margins and stable market conditions, all of which, bar the market environment, are a reflection of a more consistent and focused internal performance across the AIXTRON group.

“Looking forward over the next three months, although we have a very busy and challenging time ahead of us, we expect to continue to make good progress with our own internal operational performance, and to make further progress towards extending both our technology and our market reach.”

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