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$8.3 billion in the first quarter of 2016. The billings figure is 3 percent higher than the fourth quarter of 2015 and 13 percent lower than the same quarter a year ago. The data is gathered jointly with the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ) from over 95 global equipment companies that provide data on a monthly basis.
Worldwide semiconductor equipment bookings were $9.4 billion in the first quarter of 2016. The figure is 2 percent lower than the same quarter a year ago and 5 percent higher than the bookings figure for the fourth 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:
|
1Q2016 |
4Q2015 |
1Q2015 |
1Q16 / 4Q15 |
1Q16 / 1Q15 |
|
| Taiwan |
1.89 |
2.64 |
1.81 |
-29% |
4% |
| Korea |
1.68 |
1.22 |
2.69 |
38% |
-37% |
| China |
1.60 |
1.00 |
1.16 |
60% |
39% |
| Japan |
1.24 |
1.40 |
1.26 |
-11% |
-2% |
| North America |
1.01 |
0.92 |
1.47 |
10% |
-32% |
| Rest of World |
0.51 |
0.43 |
0.43 |
17% |
18% |
| Europe |
0.35 |
0.39 |
0.69 |
-10% |
-49% |
|
Total |
8.28 |
8.00 |
9.50 |
3% |
-13% |
Source: SEMI/SEAJ