SEMI: Semiconductor equipment market by 31% last year

Industry Association (SEMI) yesterday (26) announced the global semiconductor equipment market in 2008 reached 29.52 billion U.S. dollars, compared with 31% reduction in 2007, China Taiwan greatly reduced capital spending by more than half of semiconductor plant, a recession the most serious.

In addition, SEMI statistics semiconductor materials market in 2008 reached 42.7 billion U.S. dollars, representing a small increase of about 0.4% the previous year, mainly due to higher polysilicon and MC3359P price and gold, the market size increased rather than decreased.

SEMI announced yesterday the global semiconductor equipment and MC3359P suppliers and materials market statistics. Last year, the global semiconductor equipment market reached 29.52 billion U.S. dollars, compared with $ 42,770,000,000 in 2007 decreased by 31%, although SEMI 2009, unpublished estimates, however, including Applied Materials, equipment manufacturers, including most of the view that the market probably will be this year further reduction of 45-50%, the scale, leaving only about 150 billion U.S. dollars.

The impact of the financial tsunami last year, semiconductor plants are greatly reduced capital expenditure and investment in equipment, SEMI said last year China Taiwan wafer foundries, DRAM factory, packaging and testing plant Dengjun slashed capital spending more than half, so the equipment remaining $ 5,010,000,000 market last year, the annual reduction rate of 53% ranks highest in the world ranking and equipment spending fell by the first third.

Japan, although affected by the recession in the semiconductor, but including Toshiba, Renesas Technology (Renesas) and other plant Rengyi progress IDM 12-inch plant capacity expansion, so the reduction rate of about 24.4% market remained at 7.04 billion U.S. dollars, into

The largest equipment procurement country. As for mainland China, although a positive development of the semiconductor industry, but led to SMIC Wuhan Plant, Shenzhen factory 12-inch plant construction projects are slowing down, SMIC Shanghai and Beijing plant will stop plant capacity expansion, so the equipment market fell to 1.89 billion dollars, the annual reduction rate of 35.3%, decline rate second only to Taiwan. Although the semiconductor plant

greatly reduced capital spending and capacity utilization is also affected by poor economic downturn, but last year the global semiconductor materials market has increased rather than decreased, to 42.7 billion U.S. dollars of scale, smaller than the previous year by about 0.4%. In fact, the material was no substantial market decline, the main reason is that raw materials prices rose in the last year, including the price of polysilicon in the third quarter of last year reached the high point of the spot price per kg was 350 dollars point of view, but now has dropped to 100 U.S. dollars, The great amount of gold packaging factory, the price has remained high in more than 900 U.S. dollars.

A regional perspective, because the Japanese producers of polysilicon and silicon wafers, and Intel, Advanced Micro Devices processor board are made in Japan, so the ranking throne of the worlds largest semiconductor materials market, Taiwan has benefited from IC packaging and testing plant into a global market share of 7, packaging materials, the highest demand in the world and so is the second largest semiconductor market.