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SAN JOSE — North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers continued to see orders slide relative to sales in October, the SEMI trade group said.

The book-to-bill ratio fell 10 basis points sequentially to 0.93, the fifth straight month of declines from a high of 1.10 in June.

A book-to-bill of 0.93 means that $93 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month.

The three-month average worldwide bookings in October was $1.10 billion, down 7% from the revised September figures and down 1.9% from October 2013. Three-month average worldwide billings were down 5.8% from September to $1.18 billion, but up 10.6% from a year ago.

	Billings (3-mo. avg)	Bookings (3-mo. avg)	Book-to-Bill
May 2014	$1,407.8	$1,407.0	1.00
June 2014	$1,327.5	$1,455.0	1.10
July 2014	$1,319.1	$1,417.1	1.07
August 2014	$1,293.4	$1,346.1	1.04
September 2014 (final)	$1,256.5	$1,186.2	0.94
October 2014 (prelim)	$1,184.0	$1,102.9	0.93

Source: SEMI, November 2014

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