!!! Press Release !!!

General Meeting of AIXTRON AG resolves dividend of € 0.08 per share for fiscal year 2002

Aachen, May 8, 2003 – AIXTRON, the global market and technology leader for MOCVD (metal organic chemical vapor deposition) equipment – the key technology in the manufacture of compound semiconductors and other complex materials systems – has announced a dividend payment to shareholders of € 0.08 per share for fiscal year 2002. This was resolved by the General Meeting of AIXTRON AG today at the proposal of the Executive Board and Supervisory Board. The dividend will be distributed on May 9, 2003. As a result, € 5.2 million of the total net retained profits of € 21.1 million will be distributed, with an additional € 15.9 million being carried forward to new account. Since the company’s IPO in 1997, its shareholders have received a total of € 28.1 million of the profits generated.

The General Meeting approved the other proposals by the Executive Board and Supervisory Board, which also included the renewed authorization to buy back AIXTRON shares. The voting results and the agenda are available on AIXTRON’s web site (www.aixtron.com).

AIXTRON’s CEO Paul Hyland: “It is a great pleasure for us today to be able to report to our shareholders in person on a profitable fiscal year 2002 and to share the success of our company with them in the form of a dividend. Shareholder value is a top priority for us. One of our key strategic goals in 2003 and beyond is to qualify our technology for new, additional markets in the modern micro- and optical electronics area, and so provide us with further potential for profitable growth.”

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