SEMI, the global industry association representing more than 2,000 companies in the electronics manufacturing supply chain, today reported that worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached US$11.0 billion in the third quarter of 2016. The billings figure is 5 percent higher than the second quarter of 2016 and 14 percent higher 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 $11.3 billion in the third quarter of 2016. The figure is 30 percent higher than the same quarter a year ago and 5 percent lower than the bookings figure for the second quarter of 2016.
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:
|
3Q2016 |
2Q2016 |
3Q2015 |
3Q2016/ 2Q2016 |
3Q2016/ 3Q2015 |
|
| Taiwan |
3.46 |
2.73 |
2.85 |
27% |
22% |
| Korea |
2.09 |
1.53 |
1.56 |
36% |
34% |
| China |
1.43 |
2.27 |
1.70 |
-37% |
-16% |
| Japan |
1.29 |
1.05 |
1.43 |
22% |
-10% |
| Rest of World |
1.13 |
1.31 |
0.58 |
-14% |
95% |
| North America |
1.05 |
1.20 |
1.18 |
-12% |
-11% |
| Europe |
0.53 |
0.37 |
0.34 |
42% |
57% |
| Total |
10.98 |
10.46 |
9.64 |
5% |
14% |
Totals may not add due to rounding; Source: SEMI/SEAJ