For the primary time, China claimed the biggest marketplace for new semiconductor tools with gross sales progress of 39% to $18.72 billion. Sales in Taiwan, the second-largest tools market, remained flat in 2020 with gross sales of $17.15 billion after exhibiting sturdy progress in 2019. Korea registered 61% progress to $16.08 billion to take care of the third place. Annual spending additionally elevated 21% in Japan and 16% in Europe as each areas are recovering from the contraction in 2019. Receipts in North America decreased 20% in 2020 following three years of consecutive progress.
Global gross sales of wafer processing tools rose 19% in 2020, whereas different front-end phase gross sales grew 4%. Assembly and packaging confirmed sturdy progress throughout all areas, leading to a 34% market enhance in 2020, whereas whole check tools gross sales elevated 20%.
Compiled from information submitted by members of SEMI and the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ), the Worldwide SEMS Report is a abstract of the month-to-month billings figures for the worldwide semiconductor tools business. Equipment classes cowl wafer processing, meeting and packaging, check, and different front-end tools together with masks/reticle manufacturing, wafer manufacturing, and fab amenities.
