First-Quarter 2020 Global Semiconductor Equipment Billings Up 13% Year-Over-Year

By Tiera Oliver

Associate Editor

Embedded Computing Design

June 02, 2020

News

First-Quarter 2020 Global Semiconductor Equipment Billings Up 13% Year-Over-Year

SEMI announced worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings contracted 13% to US$15.57 billion quarter-over-quarter in Q1 2020 but increased 13% year-over-year.

In its Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (WWSEMS) Report, SEMI announced worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings contracted 13% to US$15.57 billion quarter-over-quarter in Q1 2020 but increased 13% year-over-year.

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 and year-over-year change by region are as follows:

Source: SEMI (www.semi.org) and  SEAJ (www.seaj.or.jp), June 2020

Source: SEMI (www.semi.org) and  SEAJ (www.seaj.or.jp), June 2020

The SEMI Equipment Market Data Subscription (EMDS) provides comprehensive market data for the global semiconductor equipment market. A subscription includes three reports:

  • Monthly SEMI Billings Report, a perspective on equipment market trends
  • Monthly Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (WWSEMS), a detailed report of semiconductor equipment billings for seven regions and 24 market segments
  • SEMI Semiconductor Equipment Forecast, an outlook for the semiconductor equipment market.

For more information or to subscribe, please contact the SEMI Industry Research and Statistics Group at [email protected]. More information is also available online.

Tiera Oliver, Associate Editor for Embedded Computing Design, is responsible for web content edits, product news, and constructing stories. She also assists with newsletter updates as well as contributing and editing content for ECD podcasts and the ECD YouTube channel. Before working at ECD, Tiera graduated from Northern Arizona University where she received her B.S. in journalism and political science and worked as a news reporter for the university’s student led newspaper, The Lumberjack.

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