First Quarter 2019 Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Billings Drop 19 Percent Year-Over-Year
MILPITAS, California, June 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- SEMI, the global industry association representing the electronics manufacturing and design supply chain, today reported that worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings for the first quarter of 2019 dropped 8 percent from the previous quarter and 19 percent from the same quarter in 2018 to US$13.8 billion.
The data are gathered jointly with the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ) from over 80 global equipment companies that provide data on a monthly basis. 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:
1Q2019 |
4Q2018 |
1Q2018 |
1Q19/4Q18 |
1Q19/1Q18 |
|
Taiwan |
3.81 |
2.81 |
2.27 |
36% |
68% |
Korea |
2.89 |
3.13 |
6.26 |
-8% |
-54% |
China |
2.36 |
2.69 |
2.64 |
-13% |
-11% |
North America |
1.67 |
1.94 |
1.14 |
-14% |
47% |
Japan |
1.55 |
2.65 |
2.13 |
-41% |
-27% |
Europe |
0.84 |
0.91 |
1.28 |
-8% |
-34% |
Rest of World |
0.67 |
0.82 |
1.27 |
-18% |
-47% |
Total |
13.79 |
14.96 |
16.99 |
-8% |
-19% |
Source: SEMI (www.semi.org) and SEAJ, June 2019 |
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