SEMI Announces Year-end Consensus Forecast for Chip Equipment Industry
TOKYO, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The leading manufacturers of
semiconductor equipment project 2007 sales to reach $41.68 billion
according to the year-end edition of the SEMI Capital Equipment Consensus
Forecast, released here today by SEMI at the annual SEMICON Japan
exposition.
The forecast indicates that, following 23 percent market growth in
2006, the equipment market will grow three percent in 2007. Survey
respondents expect the market to decline about two percent in 2008, and
then post growth in the high single digits in 2009 and 2010 to reach $47.99
billion in 2010.
"Sales of semiconductor manufacturing, testing, assembly and packaging
equipment are at levels slightly above last year, and will result in 2007
being the industry's second strongest year on record," said Stanley T.
Myers, president and CEO of SEMI. "SEMI members have continued to generate
strong overall sales of chip manufacturing equipment, and expect to see a
$48 billion dollar market by 2010."
Wafer processing equipment, the largest product segment by dollar
value, is expected to grow over six percent in 2007 to $30.61 billion.
Survey respondents anticipate that the market for assembly and packaging
equipment will expand by almost 11 percent to $2.72 billion in 2007. The
market for equipment to test semiconductors is expected to decline by about
15 percent to $5.47 billion this year.
The Japanese market is projected to decline by about three percent, and
moves behind Taiwan this year for only the second time ever.
South Korea continues its expansion in 2007, with projected growth of
about five percent. Sales of new equipment in China will grow almost 24
percent, while the Rest-of-World market regions will decline by about 12
percent.
The SEMI Year-End Consensus Forecast is based on interviews conducted
between late October and November 2007 with companies representing a
majority of the total sales volume for the global semiconductor equipment
industry.
The following survey results are given in terms of market size in
billions of U.S. dollars and percentage growth over the prior year:
Forecast by Equipment Segment
2006 % % % %
Equipment Actual 2007 Chng 2008 Chng 2009 Chng 2010 Chng
Type $B $B $B $B $B
Wafer
Processing $28.74 $30.61 6.5% $29.12 -4.9% $32.22 10.6% $34.64 7.5%
Assembly &
Packaging 2.46 2.72 10.6% 2.88 5.6% 2.64 -8.2% 2.39
-9.4%
Test 6.42 5.47 -14.7% 5.91 8.0% 6.20 4.9% 6.74 8.6%
Other 2.85 2.87 0.6% 3.13 9.1% 3.59 14.6% 4.22
17.7%
Total
Equipment* $40.47 $41.68 3.0% $41.05 -1.5% $44.65 8.8% $47.99 7.5%
Forecast by Region
2006 % % % %
Equipment Actual 2007 Chng 2008 Chng 2009 Chng 2010 Chng
Type $B $B $B $B $B
North
America $7.32 $6.67 -8.9% $6.50 -2.6% $6.98 7.4% $7.46 6.9%
Japan 9.21 8.92 -3.1% 8.90 -0.3% 9.53 7.2% 10.42 9.3%
Taiwan 7.31 9.42 28.9% 8.77 -6.9% 9.93 13.2% 11.13
12.1%
Europe 3.59 3.18 -11.7% 3.24 2.0% 3.38 4.5% 3.49 3.1%
South
Korea 7.01 7.38 5.2% 7.29 -1.2% 8.04 10.4% 8.67 7.9%
China 2.31 2.87 23.8% 2.73 -4.6% 2.99 9.4% 2.93
-1.9%
Rest of
World 3.71 3.25 -12.4% 3.62 11.4% 3.79 4.8% 3.88 2.4%
Total
Equipment* $40.47 $41.68 3.0% $41.05 -1.5% $44.65 8.8% $47.99 7.5%
*Totals and percentages may differ due to rounding of numbers
SEMI is the global industry association serving the manufacturing
supply chains for the microelectronic, display and photovoltaic industries.
SEMI member companies are the engine of the future, enabling smarter,
faster and more economical products that improve our lives. Since 1970,
SEMI has been committed to helping members grow more profitably, create new
markets and meet common industry challenges. SEMI maintains offices in
Austin, Beijing, Brussels, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose, Seoul, Shanghai,
Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit
http://www.semi.org.
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