SEMI reports 2010 global semiconductor equipment sales of $39.5 billion

SAN JOSE, USA: SEMI, the global industry association for companies that supply manufacturing technology and materials to the world’s chip makers, today reported that worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment totaled $39.54 billion in 2010, representing a record year-over-year increase of 148 percent.

The data is available in the Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (SEMS) Report, now available from SEMI.

Compiled from data submitted by members of SEMI and the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ), the Worldwide SEMS Report is a summary of the monthly billings and bookings figures for the global semiconductor equipment industry.

The report, which includes data for seven major semiconductor producing regions and 24 product categories, shows worldwide billings totaled $39.54 billion in 2010, compared to $15.92 billion in sales posted in 2009. Categories cover wafer processing, assembly and packaging, test, and other front-end equipment. Other front-end includes mask/reticle manufacturing, wafer manufacturing, and fab facilities equipment.

Spending increased by double-digits to triple-digits for all the regions tracked in the WWSEMS report, with the steepest increases reported for China and Korea. For the second year in a row, Taiwan was the region with the highest amount of spending with $11.19 billion in equipment sales. In second place, the Korea market had $8.33 billion in sales.

The global wafer processing equipment market segment increased 149 percent; the assembly and packaging segment increased 176 percent, the total test equipment sales increased 167 percent. Other front end equipment sales grew by 78 percent.Source: SEMI/SEAJ March 2011.

Notes: Figures may not add due to rounding. The Rest of World region aggregates Singapore,

Malaysia, Philippines, other areas of Southeast Asia and smaller global markets.

The Equipment Market Data Subscription (EMDS) from SEMI provides comprehensive market data for the global semiconductor equipment market. A subscription includes three reports: the monthly SEMI Book-to-Bill Report, which offers an early perspective of the trends in the equipment market; the monthly Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (SEMS), a detailed report of semiconductor equipment bookings and billings for seven regions and over 22 market segments; and the SEMI Semiconductor Equipment Consensus Forecast, which provides an outlook for the semiconductor equipment market.