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Semicon equipment sales to fall to $30.91bn in 2008

SEMI announces year-end forecast for chip equipment industry

Wednesday, December 03, 2008

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TOKYO, JAPAN: SEMI projects 2008 equipment sales to reach $30.91 billion according to the year-end edition of the SEMI Capital Equipment Forecast, released by SEMI at the annual SEMICON Japan exposition.

The forecast indicates that, following 5.7 percent market growth in 2007, the equipment market will decline almost 28 percent in 2008. SEMI expects the market to decline about 21 percent in 2009, and then post almost 31 percent growth in 2010.

"Worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales have declined to levels last seen in 2003 and we anticipate a second year of double-digit decline in 2009," said Stanley T. Myers, president and CEO of SEMI. "Impaired or nonexistent business trend visibility is pervasive amidst the deteriorating global economy. Therefore our outlook for 2010 is based on patterns of previous industry recoveries."

Wafer processing equipment, the largest product segment by dollar value, is expected to decline by about 28 percent in 2008 to $22.95 billion. Survey respondents anticipate that the market for assembly and packaging equipment will decline by almost 24 percent to $2.16 billion in 2008. The market for equipment to test semiconductors is expected to decline by about 27 percent to $3.69 billion this year.

The Japanese market is projected to decline by about 20 percent, but it will surpass Taiwan to become the leading region for sales of new equipment.

South Korea is expected to decline by about 28 percent in 2008, and sales of new equipment in China will decline by 35 percent, while the Rest-of-World market regions will decline by about 10 percent.

The following survey results are given in terms of market size in billions of US dollars and percentage growth over the prior year:

Forecast by Equipment Segment

Forecast by Region

*Totals and percentages may differ due to rounding of numbers.
Source: SEMI, USA

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