Semi Equipment Makers See 5th Straight Drop
SAN JOSE — North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers continued to see orders slide relative to sales in October, the SEMI trade group said.
The book-to-bill ratio fell 10 basis points sequentially to 0.93, the fifth straight month of declines from a high of 1.10 in June.
A book-to-bill of 0.93 means that $93 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month.
The three-month average worldwide bookings in October was $1.10 billion, down 7% from the revised September figures and down 1.9% from October 2013. Three-month average worldwide billings were down 5.8% from September to $1.18 billion, but up 10.6% from a year ago.
|
|
Billings |
Bookings |
Book-to-Bill |
|
May 2014 |
$1,407.8 |
$1,407.0 |
1.00 |
|
June 2014 |
$1,327.5 |
$1,455.0 |
1.10 |
|
July 2014 |
$1,319.1 |
$1,417.1 |
1.07 |
|
August 2014 |
$1,293.4 |
$1,346.1 |
1.04 |
|
September 2014 (final) |
$1,256.5 |
$1,186.2 |
0.94 |
|
October 2014 (prelim) |
$1,184.0 |
$1,102.9 |
0.93 |
Source: SEMI, November 2014
