Semiconductor Equipment B2B Drops for 5th Straight Month
SAN JOSE — North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers reported the 90-day moving average worldwide orders rose 2.8% from last year in September.
OEMs reported $952.9 million in orders in September on a three-month average basis, down 15.% from the revised August figures.
The book-to-bill ratio was 0.81, SEMI said, meaning that $81 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month.
The three-month average worldwide billings in September was $1.18 billion, down 12% from the revised August levels and down 10.4% from September 2011.
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 US dollars.
|
|
Billings |
Bookings |
Book-to-Bill |
|
April 2012 |
1,458.7 |
1,602.8 |
1.10 |
|
May 2012 |
1,539.3 |
1,613.7 |
1.05 |
|
June 2012 |
1,535.7 |
1,424.3 |
0.93 |
|
July 2012 (final) |
1,442.8 |
1,234.6 |
0.86 |
|
August 2012 (revised) |
1,337.6 |
1,122.3 |
0.84 |
|
September 2012 (prelim) |
1,177.4 |
952.9 |
0.81 |
Source: SEMI, October 2012
