North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $2.37 billion in billings worldwide in February 2020 (three-month average basis), according to the February Equipment Market Data Subscription (EMDS) Billings Report published today by SEMI. The billings figure is 1.2 percent higher than the final January 2020 level of $2.34 billion, and is 26.2 percent higher than the February 2019 billings level of $1.88 billion.
“February billings of North American equipment suppliers extended a robust uptrend that began in December 2019,” said Ajit Manocha, SEMI president and CEO. “Despite continuing industry disruptions from the global spread of COVID-19, monthly billings for the year still remain above 2019 levels.”
The SEMI Billings report uses three-month moving averages of worldwide billings for North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers. Billings figures are in millions of U.S. dollars.
| Billings (3-mo. avg.) | Year-Over-Year | |
| September 2019 | $1,959.1 | -5.7% |
| October 2019 | $2,080.8 | 2.5% |
| November 2019 | $2,121.0 | 9.1% |
| December 2019 | $2,491.7 | 17.8% |
| January 2020 (final) | $2,340.2 | 22.7% |
| February 2020 (prelim) | $2,368.4 | 26.2% |
Source: SEMI (www.semi.org), March 2020
SEMI publishes a monthly North American Billings report and issues the Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (WWSEMS) report in collaboration with the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ). The WWSEMS report currently reports billings by 24 equipment segments and by seven end market regions. SEMI also has a long history of tracking semiconductor industry fab investments in detail on a company-by-company and fab-by-fab basis in its World Fab Forecast and SEMI FabView databases. These powerful tools provide access to spending forecasts, capacity ramp, technology transitions, and other information for over 1,000 fabs worldwide. For an overview of available SEMI market data, please visit www.semi.org/en/MarketInfo.