Semi Gear Orders Down Marginally in December
SAN JOSE — North American semiconductor equipment manufacturers reported 90-day moving average bookings slipped year-over-year in December, falling 1.1% to $1.37 billion worldwide.
Worldwide billings December were up 3.1 from a year ago to $1.39 billion.
Compared to the revised November numbers, sales were 17% percent higher and orders rose 12.3%.
The book-to-bill ratio was 0.98, meaning that $98 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month. The ratio was down 40 basis points from the revised November figure.
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 |
|
July 2014 |
$1,319.1 |
$1,417.1 |
1.07 |
|
August 2014 |
$1,293.4 |
$1,346.1 |
1.04 |
|
September 2014 |
$1,256.5 |
$1,186.2 |
0.94 |
|
October 2014 |
$1,184.2 |
$1,102.3 |
0.93 |
|
November 2014 (final) |
$1,189.4 |
$1,216.8 |
1.02 |
|
December 2014 (prelim) |
$1,391.9 |
$1,366.2 |
0.98 |
Source: SEMI, January 2015
