MILPITAS, CA — Worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings in the second quarter fell 20% from a year ago to $13.3 billion, the SEMI trade group said today.

Sales were down 3% from the previous quarter.

The data are gathered jointly with the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ) from more than 80 global equipment companies that provide data on a monthly basis.

The quarterly billings data by region in billions of US dollars, quarter-over-quarter growth and year-over-year rates by region are as follows:

2Q2019

1Q2019

2Q2018

2Q19/1Q19
(Seq.)

2Q19/2Q18
(YoY)

China

3.36

2.36

3.79

43%

-11%

Taiwan

3.21

3.81

2.19

-16%

47%

Korea

2.58

2.89

4.86

-11%

-47%

North America

1.70

1.67

1.47

2%

15%

Japan

1.38

1.55

2.28

-11%

-39%

Europe

0.57

0.84

1.18

-32%

-52%

Rest of World

0.51

0.67

0.96

-24%

-47%

Total

13.31

13.79

16.74

-3%

-20%

Source: SEMI/SEAJ

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