SEMI, the global industry association representing the electronics manufacturing and design supply chain, reported that worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings for the first quarter of 2019 dropped 8 percent from the previous quarter and 19 percent from the same quarter in 2018 to US$13.8 billion.
The data are gathered jointly with the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ) from over 80 global equipment companies that provide data on a monthly basis. The quarterly billings data by region in billions of U.S. dollars, quarter-over-quarter growth and year-over-year rates by region are as follows:
| 1Q2019 | 4Q2018 | 1Q2018 | 1Q19/4Q18 (Qtr-over-Qtr) | 1Q19/1Q18 (Year-over-Year) | |
| Taiwan | 3.81 | 2.81 | 2.27 | 36% | 68% |
| Korea | 2.89 | 3.13 | 6.26 | -8% | -54% |
| China | 2.36 | 2.69 | 2.64 | -13% | -11% |
| North America | 1.67 | 1.94 | 1.14 | -14% | 47% |
| Japan | 1.55 | 2.65 | 2.13 | -41% | -27% |
| Europe | 0.84 | 0.91 | 1.28 | -8% | -34% |
| Rest of World | 0.67 | 0.82 | 1.27 | -18% | -47% |
| Total | 13.79 | 14.96 | 16.99 | -8% | -19% |
Source: SEMI (www.semi.org) and SEAJ, June 2019
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