ICOS Vision Systems Announces Date of Third Quarter 2005 Results

ICOS Vision Systems Corporation NV (NASDAQ: IVIS)
(Euronext: IVIS), a world leader in vision solutions, will issue a
press release announcing its third-quarter results at approximately
12:00 a.m. ET/6:00 a.m. Belgium time on Thursday, October 27, 2005. A
conference call has been scheduled for 9:00 a.m. ET/3:00 p.m. Belgium
time that same day. To access the conference call, please dial
+1.706.634.1030 at least 10 minutes prior to the call. A live webcast
of the conference call will also be available in the Investor section
of the ICOS Vision Systems website, http://www.icos.be.
   On the call, Anton DeProft, president and chief executive officer,
will review the financial results for the quarter ended September 30,
2005, after which he will be available for questions from the
investment community.
   A replay of the call will be available from 12:00 noon ET/6:00
p.m. Belgium Time on Thursday, October 27, through 11:59 p.m. ET
November 3/5:59 a.m. Belgium Time November 4. To access the replay,
please dial +1.800.642.1687 (international callers dial
+1.706.645.9291), conference ID number 1038104. Also, an archived
replay of the conference webcast will be available on the ICOS website
for 90 days.
   ICOS designs and manufactures inspection equipment for the
semiconductor packaging industry. It is a world-leading supplier of
equipment for the final visual control of chips before they are used
in various applications, such as PC's, cars or portable phones. ICOS'
systems perform two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) metrology and
inspection as part of the final visual quality control step in the
manufacturing of chips, wafers, flexible tapes for flat panel
displays, sockets, substrates and solar cells. Aside from its complete
systems, ICOS also offers inspection modules for integration in other
equipment.
   ICOS is headquartered in Heverlee, Belgium and has R&D centers in
Belgium, Germany and Hong Kong and sales and support offices in Japan,
the USA, Singapore, Hong Kong and Korea and production facilities in
Belgium, Hong Kong and China.
   ICOS Vision Systems Corporation NV can be found on the World Wide
Web at www.ICOS.be