<span style='color:red'>Fab Tool</span> Billings Fall for First Time in 2 Years
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Fab Tool Billings Fall for First Time in 2 Years

Billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment posted a year-over-year decline last month for the first time in two years as the fab tool market continues to cool after two years of white-hot growth.The three-month rolling average of billings for North American chip equipment firms slipped to $1.94 billion in November, down 4.2% compared to October and down 5.3% compared to November 2017, according to the SEMI trade association.“For the first time in over two years, billings of North American equipment manufacturers are down relative to the same month the year before,” said Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI, in a press statement. “After reaching historical revenues earlier this year, billings activity is decelerating in line with weaker growth expectations for 2019.”November marked the first time that fab tool billings declined on a year-over-year basis since May 2016.Despite slowing growth in recent months, global sales of semiconductor equipment are expected to set an all-time high for the second-straight year in 2018. SEMI recently forecast that global semiconductor equipment sales would grow 9.7% this year to reach $62.1 billion before declining by 4% in 2019. The trade association also projected that tool sales would bounce back to grow more than 20% in 2020 to reach $71.9 billion.
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<span style='color:red'>Fab Tool</span> Sales Expected to Decline in 2019
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Fab Tool Sales Expected to Decline in 2019

 After what is expected to be a second-straight record sales year in 2018, the semiconductor equipment market is projected to decline by 4% next year before recovering to grow by more than 20% in 2020, according to the SEMI trade group.In its year-end forecast, released on Wednesday (Dec. 12) at the Semicon Japan trade show, SEMI estimated that fab tool sales will grow 9.7% this year to reach a record $62.1 billion. The forecast is consistent with other forecasts released earlier this year, despite slowing sales growth in recent months.But the forecast calls for tool sales to decline to $56.6 billion next year before rebounding to grow 20.7% in 2020, reaching a new record high of $71.9 billion.SEMI projects that the market for wafer processing equipment — the largest category of semiconductor production equipment — will grow 10.2% this year to reach $50.2 billion. The chip test equipment market is expected to grow by 15.6% this year to reach $5.4 billion, while the assembly and packaging equipment market is forecast to grow 1.9% to reach $4 billion, said SEMI.Semiconductor equipment market in billions of U.S. dollars. (Source: SEMI)South Korea — paced by continued record spending by Samsung Electronics — is expected to remain the largest regional market for fab tools for a second-straight year in 2018. China is expected to leapfrog Taiwan in 2018 to become the second-largest market for chip equipment, growing at a rate of 55.7%, said SEMI.For 2019, SEMI projects that South Korea, China, and Taiwan will remain the top three markets for chip equipment.
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<span style='color:red'>Fab Tool</span> Sales Slip to $15.8 Billion in Q3
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Fab Tool Sales Slip to $15.8 Billion in Q3

Global semiconductor equipment billings slipped to $15.8 billion in the third quarter, a 5% decrease from the second quarter, according to the SEMI trade organization. Billings improved by 11% compared to the third quarter of 2017.The third quarter marked the second straight quarter of sequential billings declines for the semiconductor equipment industry, which has been enjoying a historic run. Third quarter billings were down by 7% compared to $17 billion in the first quarter, the peak of the upcycle.SEMI said in July it expects chip equipment sales to hit $62.7 billion this year, an increase of 12% compared to the record high of $56.6 billion the industry set last year.
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<span style='color:red'>Fab Tool</span> Spending on Pace for Third Straight Record Year
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Fab Tool Spending on Pace for Third Straight Record Year

Spending on semiconductor capital equipment is on pace to set a new all-time high for the third consecutive year, led by strong sales in South Korea and China, according to the latest forecast by the SEMI trade association.The latest SEMI forecast calls for spending to rise 14 percent this year, reaching nearly $65 billion. Spending is forecast to rise an additional 9 percent next year to top $70 billion for the first time, SEMI said. The last time semiconductor equipment spending rose for four consecutive years was the mid 1990s.South Korea is expected to remain the top region for chip equipment spending in 2018. While Samsung Electronics is expected to reduce its equipment spending from its 2017 level of about $18 billion, Samsung is still expected to account for about 70 percent of the equipment spending in South Korea this year, according to SEMI. SK Hynix is expected to increase its equipment spending in South Korea this year, SEMI said.Meanwhile, China — which is expected to be the top region for semiconductor equipment sales beginning next year — continues its dramatic rise in fab tool spending. Equipment spending in China is expected to increase by 65 percent this year and by an additional 57 percent in 2019, SEMI said.SEMI noted that more than half of the semiconductor equipment spending in China in 2018 and in 2019 is expected to come from non-Chinese companies including Intel, SK Hynix, TSMC, Samsung and Globalfoundries. Domestic Chinese companies — backed by large government initiatives — are building a considerable number of fabs that are starting to equip this year and next year, according to SEMI. These companies are expected to double their equipment investments in 2018 and again in 2019, SEMI said.The trade group said other regions are also ramping up investment in semiconductor equipment, including a projected 60 percent increase in spending in Japan this year. Spending in Europe and the Mideast is expected to increase by about 12 percent, SEMI said, while growth in Southeast Asia is expected to be about 30 percent.
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Release time：2018-06-14 00:00 reading：1465 Continue reading>>
<span style='color:red'>Fab Tool</span> Spending Projected to Rise for 3rd Straight Year
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Fab Tool Spending Projected to Rise for 3rd Straight Year

　　A surge in spending on new wafer fabs in China is projected to drive up global spending on fab tools in 2018, the third straight year of increases and the first time that has happened since the mid-1990s.　　Total global fab tool spending will increase 9 percent to reach more than $62 billion this year, according to the latest forecast from the SEMI trade association. Spending on tools is forecast to rise an additional 5 percent in 2019, which would mark the fourth straight year of spending increases, said SEMI (San Jose, Calif.).　　Most of the expected increases in 2018 and in 2019 will be driven by new fabs under construction in China. A record 26 volume fabs began construction in China in 2017, and they are buying equipment over the next two years, SEMI said.　　China's fab tool spending is forecast to increase 57 percent in 2018 and an additional 60 percent in 2019, SEMI said. The trade group expects China to become the top region in the world for fab tool spending in 2019, topping South Korea.　　South Korea's fab equipment spending — which rose to more than $20 billion in 2017 — will decline 9 percent to $18 billion in 2018 and fall a further 14 percent to $16 billion in 2019, according to the SEMI forecast.　　Equipment spending in Taiwan — expected to be the No. 3 market in 2018 — will fall by 10 percent to about $10 billion in 2018 before rebounding to grow 15 percent to more than $11 billion in 2019, SEMI said.　　South Korea's Samsung Electronics is expected to maintain its spot as the global leader in fab tool buying in both 2018 and 2019, but the company's spending in each of those years is expected to be below 2017, when it spent more than $18 billion on fab tools.　　Spending on tools for 3D NAND production is expected to increase by 3 percent in both 2018 and 2019 to reach $16 billion and $17 billion, respectively, SEMI said. Tool spending for DRAM production is forecast to grow by 26 percent this year to reach more than $14 billion before declining by 14 percent to $12 billion in 2019, according to the SEMI forecast.　　Fab tool buying by foundries is expected to grow by 2 percent to reach $17 billion this year, SEMI said. Foundries are projected to increase their spending dramatically next year, up 26 percent to $22 billion to support 7nm and additional capacity, according to the forecast.
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U.S. Clears Chinese Firm's Acquisition of <span style='color:red'>Fab Tool</span> Vendor
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U.S. Clears Chinese Firm's Acquisition of Fab Tool Vendor

　　A Chinese supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment has finalized the acquisition of Akrion Systems — a U.S. provider of wafer surface preparation tools — with the approval of the U.S. government.　　Beijing-based Naura Microelectronics Equipment Co. Ltd. said this week it closed the relatively small $15 million deal to acquire Allentown, Penn.-based Akrion. The deal is believed to be the first acquisition of a U.S. semiconductor technology company to be approved the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United State (CFIUS) since Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. president.　　However, Handel Jones, founder and CEO of market research and consulting firm International Business Strategies Inc. (IBS), characterized the acquisition of a niche player in semiconductor equipment as something of an outlier, saying the approval by CFIUS is not likely indicative of a general shift in stance by Washington.　　"I don't think it moves the needle at all," Jones said. "I think the policy [of blocking U.S. chip firms from being acquired by Chinese firms] is going to become more restrictive rather than less restrictive in the next six to 18 months."　　Over the past two years, Washington has grown increasingly wary of efforts by Chinese companies to acquire U.S. and Western tech firms in generally, and semiconductor firms in particular. In one high-profile example, Trump last year blocked the proposed acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor by Canyon Bridge Capital Partners — an investment firm funded in part by China's central government — after CFIUS recommended that he do so.　　CFIUS is a multi-agency committee of the U.S. government that reviews proposed acquisitions of U.S. firms by foreign entities for potential national security implications.　　China has indicated that it plans to spend more than $160 billion over 10 years to beef of its domestic semiconductor industry to provide more parts to massive internal electronics markets. U.S. business advocates and politicians have expressed concern that China's ambition and policies that distort the market in its favor represents a threat to U.S. standing in the semiconductor industry.　　Prior to leaving office early last year, former U.S. President Barack Obama released a report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology which argued that the argued that the U.S. semiconductor industry needs to innovate and “run faster” in order to counter the threat China's policies.　　According to Jones, the Washington remains highly cautious of China's attempts to grow its semiconductor industry through acquisition. He also said politicians are deeply concerned over the huge trade imbalance with China.　　"Based on what we are seeing right now, I think it's going to become increasingly difficult to get anything that is strategically important through CFIUS," Jones said in an interview with EE Times.　　In the case of the Akrion deal, Jones suggested that Akrion's batch immersion and single-wafer surface preparation equipment is not deemed a strategic technological advantage. "In terms of the tooling required for semiconductor manufacturing, if you look at what Applied Materials and TEL are doing, they are so far ahead of the smaller companies technologically," Jones said.　　Jones maintains that, rather than trying to block China's efforts, the U.S. should focus on trying to make greater inroads into China's market. "I think that the approach of limiting China is the wrong approach," Jones said.　　Akrion will operate as a U.S. subsidiary of Naura, to be known as Naura Akrion. Naura said the unit will continue to focus on and promote its existing line of 200- and 300-mm batch and single-wafer tools and also invest in new product, application and process development.
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<span style='color:red'>Fab Tool</span> Sales Forecast to Hit Record $56 Billion
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Fab Tool Sales Forecast to Hit Record $56 Billion

Sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment are now expected to grow by nearly 36 percent in 2017, an increase from an earlier forecast that projected 20 percent growth, according to the SEMI trade association. The group expects sales to grow by another 7.5 percent next year.SEMI said it now expects sales for fab tools to reach a record $55.9 billion this year, passing the $50 billion mark for the first time. The earlier forecast, issued in June, had predicted sales of $49.4 billion, which itself would have been a record.This year's semiconductor equipment buying spree, fueled by capacity expansion and record chip sales, is expected to shatter the sales record set way back in 2000, at the height of the dot com bubble.Sales of wafer processing equipment — the largest category of semiconductor equipment — are expected to grow by 37.5 percent to reach $45 billion, SEMI said. Sales of other front-end equipment, including mask and reticle inspection equipment, is expected to increase by 46 percent to reach $2.6 billion, SEMI said.SEMI said it expects assembly and packaging equipment sales to grow 26 percent to reach $3.8 billion and test equipment sales to grow 22 percent to $4.5 billion.South Korea remains on pace to become the largest geography for fab tool sales for the first time this year, SEMI said. Taiwan is expected to be the second largest geography, while China — where sales are expected to grow by 49 percent — is expected to be the third largest geography for sales, SEMI said.
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<span style='color:red'>Fab Tool</span> Sales Decline for 4th Straight Month
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Fab Tool Sales Decline for 4th Straight Month

　　Sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment declined on a sequential basis for the fourth straight month in October, but remained well ahead of last year's pace, according to the SEMI trade association.　　The three-month average of billings for North American semiconductor tool manufacturers slid to $2.02 billion in October, down 1.8 percent compared with September, SEMI said. However, billings were 23.7 percent the October 2016 figure, SEMI said.　　The equipment market is on pace for a record year with sales of greater than $50 billion. SEMI said in July it expects sales to be up nearly 20 percent this year, but growth since then has pushed the number higher. The trade group has previously predicted that the market would grow another 8 percent in 2018.　　“In spite of this seasonal weakness, we expect equipment spending to increase by 30 percent or more this year and are positive about growth in 2018," said Ajit Manocha, SEMI president and CEO, in statement.　　Meanwhile, the Japan Semiconductor Equipment Association (SEAJ) reported that the three-month average of billings for Japan-based semiconductor tool vendors was $1.55 billion in October, down 2.8 percent from September but up 18.3 percent compared to October 2016.
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<span style='color:red'>Fab Tool</span> Spending on Pace to Shatter Record
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Fab Tool Spending on Pace to Shatter Record

　　In what is shaping up to be a banner year for the semiconductor equipment industry in every way measurable, combined spending on new and refurbished fab tools is not expected to shatter a six-year-old record.　　Total fab equipment spending is expected to grow 37 percent this year to reach $55 billion, according to the latest forecast from the SEMI trade association. This would obliterate the previous record for combined spending on new and refurbished equipment of $40 billion set in 2011.　　SEMI expects fab tool spending to increase by another 5 percent next year to reach $58 billion.　　Out of 296 front end fabs and lines tracked by SEMI, 30 are expected to spend more than $500 million on equipment this year, according to the trade association.　　Fab tool spending will be highest in both 2017 and 2018 in South Korea, the bulk of which is driven by Samsung, according to the SEMI forecast. SEMI expects South Korean fab tool spending to increase 130 percent this year to reach $19.5 billion.　　Samsung is expected to more than double its spending on front end fab tools this year to between $16 billion and $17 billion. SEMI expects Samsung to invest another $15 billion in fab tools next year.
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Release time：2017-09-21 00:00 reading：1483 Continue reading>>
<span style='color:red'>Fab Tool</span> Sales Again Set Quarterly Record
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Fab Tool Sales Again Set Quarterly Record

　　Worldwide billings for semiconductor manufacturing equipment hit an all-time high in the second quarter, breaking a record that had been set in the first quarter, as the industry remains on track to post its best year ever, according to the SEMI trade association.　　Second quarter equipment billings totaled $14.1 billion, shattering the record of $13.08 billion set in the first quarter by more than $1 billion, or 8 percent, SEMI (San Jose, Calif.) said. Second quarter equipment billings were up by 35 percent compared with the second quarter of 2016.　　Semiconductor equipment sails are riding the wave of capacity expansions and node scaling in what is shaping up to be a huge year for semiconductor sales, particularly in the memory segment. In July, SEMI projected that tool sales would hit $49.4 billion this year, breaking the record set in the dot com heyday of 2000.　　Growth in the second quarter was strongest in South Korea, which is projected to be the No. 1 region for fab tool buying this year, SEMI said. Taiwan and China ranking second and third, respectively, in tool sales for the second quarter, SEMI said.　　Data for the second quarter billings estimate was gathered jointly by SEMI and the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ) from more than 95 chip equipment companies.
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