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$9.4 billion in the second quarter of 2015. The billings figure is 1 percent lower than the first quarter of 2015 and 2 percent lower 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 $10.2 billion in the second quarter of 2015. The figure is 2 percent higher than the same quarter a year ago and 6 percent higher than the bookings figure for the first 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:
| 2Q2015 | 1Q2015 | 2Q2014 | 2Q15/1Q15 (Qtr-over-Qtr) | 2Q15/2Q14 (Year-over-Year) | |
| Taiwan | 2.34 | 1.81 | 2.48 | 29% | -6% |
| Korea | 2.00 | 2.69 | 1.73 | -25% | 16% |
| North America | 1.55 | 1.47 | 2.32 | 5% | -33% |
| Japan | 1.40 | 1.26 | 1.00 | 12% | 40% |
| China | 1.04 | 1.16* | 1.03 | -10% | 1% |
| Rest of World | 0.53 | 0.43 | 0.50 | 24% | 7% |
| Europe | 0.52 | 0.69 | 0.57 | -24% | -7% |
| Total | 9.39 | 9.50* | 9.62 | -1% | -2% |