SEMI, the global industry association for companies that supply manufacturing technology and materials to the world’s chip makers, today reported that worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached US$ 9.62 billion in the second quarter of 2014. The billings figure is 5 percent lower than the first quarter of 2014 and 28 percent higher than the same quarter a year ago. The data is gathered jointly with the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ) from over 100 global equipment companies that provide data on a monthly basis.
Worldwide semiconductor equipment bookings were $9.96 billion in the second quarter of 2014. The figure is 9 percent higher than the same quarter a year ago and 1 percent higher than the bookings figure for the first quarter of 2014.
The quarterly billings data by region in billions of U.S. dollars, quarter-over-quarter growth and year-over-year rates by region are as follows:
| Region |
2Q2014 |
1Q2014 |
2Q2013 |
2Q14/1Q14 (Qtr-over-Qtr) |
2Q14/2Q13 (Year-over-Year) |
| Taiwan |
2.48 |
2.59 |
2.73 |
-5% |
-9% |
| North America |
2.32 |
1.85 |
1.16 |
25% |
101% |
| Korea |
1.73 |
2.03 |
1.22 |
-15% |
42% |
| China |
1.03 |
1.71 |
0.84 |
-40% |
23% |
| Japan |
1.00 |
0.96 |
0.74 |
4% |
35% |
| Europe |
0.57 |
0.58 |
0.36 |
-3% |
58% |
| ROW |
0.50 |
0.42 |
0.51 |
18% |
-2% |
| Total |
9.62 |
10.15 |
7.54 |
-5% |
28% |
Source: SEMI/SEAJ September 2014
Note: Figures may not add due to rounding.
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Second quarter semi equipment billings 28% higher than 2013 Q2