Printed Circuit Design & Fab Online Magazine - Semi Gear Orders Up in Feb.

SAN JOSE — North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers reported slightly higher February bookings based on a 90-day average calculated by SEMI.

Manufacturers said worldwide orders reached $1.31 billion in February, up 1% over last year. Orders were down 1.3% from the revised January figure.

The three-month average worldwide billings was $1.28 billion, down 0.2% from the final January level and 0.9% lower than February 2014.

The book-to-bill ratio was 1.02, meaning $102 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month.

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 U.S. dollars.

	Billings (3-mo. avg)	Bookings (3-mo. avg)	Book-to-Bill
September 2014	$1,256.5	$1,186.2	0.94
October 2014	$1,184.2	$1,102.3	0.93
November 2014	$1,189.4	$1,216.8	1.02
December 2014	$1,395.9	$1,381.5	0.99
January 2015 (final)	$1,279.1	$1,325.6	1.04
February 2015 (prelim)	$1,277.1	$1,308.1	1.02