North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts June 2021 Billings

MILPITAS, Calif. — North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted $3.67 billion in billings worldwide in June 2021 (three-month average basis), according to the June Equipment Market Data Subscription (EMDS) Billings Report published today by SEMI. The billings figure is 2.3% higher than final May 2021 billings of $3.59 billion and 58.4% higher than June 2020 billings of $2.32 billion.

SEMI logo“The semiconductor equipment market demonstrated extraordinary growth in the first half of 2021,” said Ajit Manocha, SEMI president and CEO. “We are witnessing a structural shift in the industry marked by higher capital investments as demand for the semiconductors needed to power technologies unleashed by innovation and the digitization of economies continues to grow.”

The SEMI Billings report uses three-month moving averages of worldwide billings for North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers. Billings figures are in millions of U.S. dollars.

  Billings
(3-mo. Avg.)
Year-Over-Year
January 2021 $3,038.2 29.8%
February 2021 $3,143.1 32.4%
March 2021 $3,273.9 47.9%
April 2021 $3,428.9 50.3%
May 2021 (final) $3,588.5 53.1%
June 2021 (prelim) $3,671.3 58.4%

Source: SEMI (www.semi.org), July 2021

SEMI publishes a monthly North American Billings report and issues the Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (WWSEMS) report in collaboration with the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ). The WWSEMS report currently reports billings by 24 equipment segments and by seven end market regions. SEMI also has a long history of tracking semiconductor industry fab investments in detail on a company-by-company and fab-by-fab basis in its World Fab Forecast and SEMI FabView databases. These powerful tools provide access to spending forecasts, capacity ramp, technology transitions, and other information for over 1,000 fabs worldwide. For an overview of available SEMI market data, please visit www.semi.org/en/MarketInfo.

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