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Strong growth in equipment booking and billings continues in Q1 |
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May 18, 2006 at 08:55 AM |
 Worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached $9.58
billion in the first quarter of 2006, according to SEMI, while bookings
reached US$9.94 billion. The billings figure is 20 percent higher than
the fourth quarter of 2005 and three percent above the same quarter a
year ago. The bookings figure is 36 percent above the same quarter a
year ago, and 18 percent above the bookings figure for the fourth
quarter of 2005, stated the trade association.
"Bookings and billings
for the first quarter of 2006 posted strong gains over the fourth
quarter of 2005, with North America and Korea showing particularly
robust growth," said Stanley T. Myers, president and CEO of SEMI.
"Year-over-year sales in most regions saw double-digit growth, with the
exception of Europe, and Korea, which saw capacity purchased in 2004
coming online."
Equipment billings from China only increase 1
percent quarter on quarter and were the lowest figure of countries
broken-out by SEMI at $380 million US dollars for Q106.
Japan continued strong spending quarter on quarter, topping the billings total with $2.33 billion in equipment purchases.
The
highest quarter on quarter rises in billings came from Korea with a 35
percent increase and North America with a 34 percent rise.
The
quarterly billings data by region in millions of U.S. dollars,
year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter growth rates by region are as
follows:
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