SEMI, the global industry association for companies that supply manufacturing technology and materials to the world’s chip makers, this week reported that worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached US$9.6 billion in the third quarter of 2015. The billings figure is 3 percent higher than the second quarter of 2015 and 9 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 $8.7 billion in the third quarter of 2015. The figure is 7 percent lower than the same quarter a year ago and 14 percent lower than the bookings figure for the second quarter of 2015.
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:
|
3Q2015 |
2Q2015 |
3Q2014 |
3Q15/2Q15 (Qtr-over-Qtr) |
3Q15/3Q14 |
|
| Taiwan |
2.85 |
2.34 |
2.30 |
22% |
24% |
| China |
1.70 |
1.04 |
0.96 |
63% |
78% |
| Korea |
1.56 |
2.00 |
1.00 |
-22% |
56% |
| Japan |
1.43 |
1.40 |
1.10 |
2% |
30% |
| North America |
1.18 |
1.55 |
2.16 |
-23% |
-45% |
| Rest of World |
0.58 |
0.53 |
0.64 |
9% |
-10% |
| Europe |
0.34 |
0.52 |
0.66 |
-36% |
-49% |
| Total |
9.64 |
9.39 |
8.82 |
3% |
9% |
Source: SEMI/SEAJ December 2015; Note: Figures may not add due to rounding.
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