SAN JOSE – The 90-day moving average orders for North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers rose 26.7% year-over-year in February, according to the industry's top trade group.

The semiconductor fabrication industry posted $1.58 billion in orders in February, up 4.7% from the revised January figures.

The three-month average of worldwide billings in February was $1.83 billion, up 2.3% from January and up 79.8% from last year, when the market was emerging from a recession. Billings increased for the third month in a row.

The book-to-bill ratio was 0.87, meaning that $87 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month. A ratio under 1.0 is considered an indicator of future decline.

The SEMI book-to-bill is a ratio of three-month moving averages of worldwide bookings and billings for North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers. Billings and bookings figures are in millions of U.S. dollars.

 

Billings
(3-month

avg.)

Bookings
(3-month

avg.)

Book-to-

Bill

September 2010

1,610.9

1,651.2

1.03

October 2010

1,623.3

1,593.7

0.98

November 2010

1,567.3

1,512.6

0.97

December 2010

1,760.1

1,580.2

0.90

January 2011 (final)

1,786.9

1,513.9

0.85

February 2011 (prelim)

1,827.2

1,584.9

0.87

Source: SEMI March 2011

 

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