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Semiconductor equipment billings top $11.06 billion in 2Q07 |
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Aug 15, 2007 at 12:16 PM |
 As expected, worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings for the second quarter of 2007 were higher than the first quarter of 2007 by 3 percent, according to SEMI. Billings reached $11.06 billion - about 15 percent greater than the same quarter last year.
However, bookings of $10.22 billion in the second quarter of 2007 are 18 percent less than the same quarter a year ago, and about four percent below the bookings figure for the first quarter of 2007.
"Investment by memory manufacturers was particularly strong during the first half of the year resulting in modest growth in billings during the second quarter," said Stanley T. Myers, President and CEO of SEMI. "Bookings, while experiencing a slight decline, remain at sustainable levels, with this year's revenues expected to be on par with 2006."
On a regional basis billings were markedly down q-on-q in ROW (-37 percent) in Europe (-33 percent) and North America (-13 percent). Billings were up q-on-q in China (+104 percent) in Taiwan (+80 percent) in Korea (+16 percent) and in Japan (+6 percent).
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