Printed Circuit Design & Fab Online Magazine - Semi Equipment Orders Up YoY in June

SAN JOSE — The 90-day moving average orders at North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers was $1.51 billion worldwide in June, up 3.5% from a year ago.

The book-to-bill ratio for the month was 0.98, according to SEMI today. A book-to-bill of 0.98 means that $98 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month. A ratio below 1.0 is generally seen as an indicator of near-term weakness.

The three-month average worldwide bookings in June was down 2.6% from the revised May level.

Worldwide billings rose 16.2% over last year to $1.54 billion, but were down 1% sequentially.

	Billings (3-mo. avg)	Bookings (3-mo. avg)	Book-to-Bill
January 2015	$1,279.1	$1,325.6	1.04
February 2015	$1,280.1	$1,313.7	1.03
March 2015	$1,265.6	$1,392.7	1.10
April 2015	$1,515.3	$1,573.7	1.04
May 2015 (final)	$1,557.3	$1,546.2	0.99
June 2015 (prelim)	$1,542.1	$1,506.1	0.98