Semiconductor Equipment Demand Picks Up in December
SAN JOSE — The 90-day moving average orders among North American semiconductor equipment manufacturers fell 2.8% from a year ago in December, SEMI said today.
The group posted $1.34 billion in worldwide orders in December on a three-month average basis, up 8.6% from the revised November 2015 level.
The book-to-bill ratio was 0.99, up 30 basis points sequentially. A book-to-bill of 0.99 means that $99 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month.
The 90-day average worldwide billings was $1.35 billion, up 4.9% from the final November figure and down 3.2% from a year ago.
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 |
Bookings |
Book-to-Bill |
|
|
July 2015 |
$1,556.2 |
$1,587.3 |
1.02 |
|
August 2015 |
$1,575.9 |
$1,670.1 |
1.06 |
|
September 2015 |
$1,495.0 |
$1,554.9 |
1.04 |
|
October 2015 |
$1,358.6 |
$1,325.6 |
0.98 |
|
November 2015 (final) |
$1,288.3 |
$1,236.6 |
0.96 |
|
December 2015 (prelim) |
$1,351.8 |
$1,342.7 |
0.99 |
Source: SEMI, January 2016
