SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — July 12, 2016 — SEMI projects that the worldwide semiconductor equipment market will be flat this year and will rebound in 2017 according to the mid-year edition of the SEMI® Capital Equipment Forecast, released today at the SEMICON West exposition. SEMI forecasts that the total semiconductor equipment market will grow 1 percent in 2016 (reaching $36.9 billion) after contracting 3 percent in 2015. An increase of 11 percent is expected in 2017 for the market to reach $41.1 billion.
The following results are given in terms of market size in billions of U.S. dollars and percentage growth over the prior year:
SEMI® 2016 Mid-Year Equipment Forecast by Market Region
|
By EQUIPMENT TYPE |
year-over-year |
year-over-year |
|||
|
2015 |
2016F |
% Change |
2017F |
% Change |
|
|
Wafer Processing |
28.78 |
29.33 |
1.9% |
33.09 |
12.8% |
|
Test |
3.33 |
3.36 |
0.9% |
3.46 |
3.0% |
|
Assembly & Packaging |
2.51 |
2.39 |
-5.0% |
2.48 |
4.0% |
|
Other Front End |
1.90 |
1.86 |
-2.1% |
2.05 |
10.2% |
|
Total |
36.52 |
36.94 |
1.1% |
41.08 |
11.2% |
|
By REGION |
year-over-year |
year-over-year |
|||
|
2015 |
2016F |
% Change |
2017F |
% Change |
|
|
China |
4.90 |
6.41 |
30.8% |
7.24 |
12.9% |
|
Europe |
1.95 |
2.07 |
6.2% |
2.46 |
18.8% |
|
Japan |
5.49 |
5.08 |
-7.6% |
4.72 |
-7.0% |
|
Korea |
7.46 |
6.17 |
-17.3% |
7.99 |
29.5% |
|
North America |
5.12 |
4.62 |
-9.8% |
4.97 |
7.6% |
|
ROW |
1.97 |
3.13 |
58.9% |
3.68 |
17.6% |
|
Taiwan |
9.63 |
9.46 |
-1.8% |
10.02 |
5.9% |
|
Total |
36.52 |
36.94 |
1.1% |
41.08 |
11.2% |
*Totals may not add due to rounding; Source: SEMI, July 2016;
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