Gartner: Worldwide Semiconductor Capital Equipment Spending Flat at $56B in 2007
In 2007, a softer macroeconomic sales environment for electronics combined with excess semiconductor inventories and strong 2006 capacity investments will cause a small contraction in equipment demand in 2007, but it will not be a collapse in demand, says Gartner.
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Worldwide
Semiconductor Capital and Equipment Spending Forecasts |
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2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
| Semicon Capital Spending |
47,197.1 |
56,062.2 |
56,619.4 |
65,730.7 |
60,276.1 |
58,699.7 |
68,320.2 |
| Growth (%) |
-2.7 |
18.8 |
1.0 |
16.1 |
-8.3 |
-2.6 |
16.4 |
| Capital Equipment |
33,936.5 |
42,378.0 |
42,070.3 |
50,800.5 |
44,287.5 |
45,492.2 |
52,909.4 |
| Growth (%) |
-10.5 |
24.9 |
-0.7 |
20.8 |
-12.8 |
2.7 |
16.3 |
| Wafer Fab Equip |
25,967.1 |
32,798.6 |
33,003.8 |
39,089.4 |
34,663.5 |
34,942.8 |
41,369.7 |
| Growth (%) |
-8.4 |
26.3 |
0.6 |
18.4 |
-11.3 |
0.8 |
18.4 |
| Packaging/Assembly Equip |
4,196.5 |
4,833.7 |
4,559.0 |
5,736.1 |
4,833.4 |
5,102.0 |
5,788.8 |
| Growth (%) |
-12.3 |
15.2 |
-5.7 |
25.8 |
-15.7 |
5.6 |
13.5 |
| Automated Test Equip |
3,772.9 |
4,745.7 |
4,507.5 |
5,975.0 |
4,790.6 |
5,447.4 |
5,750.9 |
| Growth (%) |
-21.2 |
25.8 |
-5.0 |
32.6 |
-19.8 |
13.7 |
5.6 |
| Other Spending |
13,260.6 |
13,684.3 |
14,549.2 |
14,930.1 |
15,988.7 |
13,207.4 |
15,410.7 |
| Growth (%) |
25.6 |
3.2 |
6.3 |
2.6 |
7.1 |
-17.4 |
16.7 |
| Source: Gartner Dataquest (December 2006) | |||||||
Additional information is available in the Gartner report “Semiconductor Capital Equipment Catches its Breath in 2007." at http://www.gartner.com
