Wednesday 21 October 2009

Semiconductor Industry Recovering

Business is looking up for fab tool makers.

North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted a book-to-bill ratio of 1.17 in September, up from 1.06 in August, according to SEMI.

"September 2009 is also the first time since May 2007 that year-over-year bookings have risen and is in-line with the gradually improving capital spending outlook for the remainder of this year and into next year."

http://www.semi.org/en/Press/CTR_032564

Japanese book-to-bill also look positive at 1.28. Please refer to the below URL:
http://www.seaj.or.jp/english/statistics/index.html

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