North American semiconductor equipment industry posts January 2018 billings

Milpitas, CA. North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $2.36 billion in billings worldwide in January 2018 (three-month average basis), according to the January Equipment Market Data Subscription (EMDS) Billings Report published by SEMI. The billings figure is 1.4% lower than the final December 2017 level of $2.40 billion, and is 27.2% higher than the January 2017 billings level of $1.86 billion.

“The strong billings levels from late 2017 have carried over into the new year,” said Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI. “We maintain a positive outlook for the 2018 market, marking three years of growth for equipment spending.”

The SEMI Billings report uses three-month moving averages of worldwide billings for North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers. Billings figures are in millions of U.S. dollars.

Source: SEMI (www.semi.org), February 2018

SEMI publishes a monthly North American billings report and issues the Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (WWSEMS) report in collaboration with the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ). The WWSEMS report currently reports billings by 24 equipment segments and by seven end-market regions. SEMI also has a long history of tracking semiconductor industry fab investments in detail on a company-by-company and fab-by-fab basis in its World Fab Forecast and SEMI FabView databases. These tools provide access to spending forecasts, capacity ramp, technology transitions, and other information for over 1,000 fabs worldwide. For an overview of available SEMI market data, visit www.semi.org/en/MarketInfo.

The data contained in this release were compiled by David Powell Inc., an independent financial services firm, without audit, from data submitted directly by the participants. SEMI and David Powell Inc. assume no responsibility for the accuracy of the underlying data.