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MILPITAS, Calif. —North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.99 billion in orders worldwide in December, Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) reported. The trade group also said that its book-to-bill ratio closed the year at 1.06. The ratio means that $106 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed during the month.

SEMI said that its three-month average of global bookings in December was $1.99 billion, which was 28% higher than the November bookings of $1.55 billion. Billings for the month were $1.87 billion, which as almost 16% higher than the $1.61 billion posted in November. Figure 1 below shows the SEMI data through December.

Figure 1. Billing and booking data tracking North American semiconductor manufacturing equipment and materials sold worldwide.

Source: SEMI (January 2016).

In other microelectronics market news, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported that on a year-to-year basis that global sales for December rose 12.3% from $27.62 billion to $31 billion in 2016.

The SIA said the Chinese market was up 20%, closing December 2016 at $10.17 billion. Both the Asian-Pacific and Americas markets increased around 10% for December, closing the month with respective sales of $8.86 billion and $6.33 billion. European sales were $2.8 billion for the final month of the year, while Japanese sales finished December at $2.84 billion. Figure 2 shows a comparison of regional and global sales for the end of 2016 and 2015.

Figure 2. World semiconductor device sales for December and December 2015 for major global markets.

Source: Semiconductor Industry Association (February 2017).

Georgia Tech high-purity water seminar

ATLANTA, GA—The Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN) at Georgia Tech is sponsoring a free one-day seminar entitled, “Introduction to High-Purity Water Standards—Implications for System Design and Operation” on Feb. 23^rd. The meeting will be conducted at the Marcus Nanotechnology Building on the university campus.

Seminar speakers will include Dr. Slava Libman of Air Liquide Balazs NanoAnlysis; and Glen Sundstrom and Jeffrey Holland of Evoqua Water Technologies, LLC. Ben Hollerbach of the IEN will lead a tour of the IEN’s clean room and lab for attendees.

The meeting program and registration information is available at this link: http://ien.gatech.edu/issevoqua.

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