SEMI today reported that worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached US$ 8.82 billion in the third quarter of 2014. The billings figure is 8 percent lower than the second quarter of 2014 and 15 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 $9.32 billion in the third quarter of 2014. The figure is 4 percent higher than the same quarter a year ago and 6 percent lower than the bookings figure for the second 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 |
|
|
|
3Q14/2Q14 |
3Q14/3Q13 |
| Taiwan |
2.30 |
2.48 |
2.24 |
-7% |
3% |
| North America |
2.16 |
2.32 |
1.22 |
-7% |
77% |
| Japan |
1.10 |
1.00 |
0.83 |
10% |
32% |
| Korea |
1.00 |
1.73 |
1.50 |
-42% |
-34% |
| China |
0.96 |
1.03 |
0.60 |
-7% |
59% |
| Europe |
0.66 |
0.57 |
0.60 |
16% |
9% |
| ROW |
0.64 |
0.50 |
0.64 |
28% |
1% |
| Total |
8.82 |
9.62 |
7.64 |
-8% |
15% |
Source: SEMI/SEAJ December 2014;Note: Figures may not add due to rounding.
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