SAN JOSE — North American semiconductor equipment manufacturers reported 90-day moving average bookings slipped year-over-year in December, falling 1.1% to $1.37 billion worldwide.

Worldwide billings December were up 3.1 from a year ago to $1.39 billion.

Compared to the revised November numbers, sales were 17% percent higher and orders rose 12.3%.

 The book-to-bill ratio was 0.98, meaning that $98 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month. The ratio was down 40 basis points from the revised November figure.

The SEMI book-to-bill is a ratio of three-month moving averages of worldwide bookings and billings for North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers. Billings and bookings figures are in millions of US dollars.

 

Billings
(3-mo. avg)

Bookings
(3-mo. avg)

Book-to-Bill

July 2014

$1,319.1

$1,417.1

1.07

August 2014

$1,293.4

$1,346.1

1.04

September 2014

$1,256.5

$1,186.2

0.94

October 2014

$1,184.2

$1,102.3

0.93

November 2014 (final)

$1,189.4

$1,216.8

1.02

December 2014 (prelim)

$1,391.9

$1,366.2

0.98

Source: SEMI, January 2015 

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