According to Japanese semiconductor device association (SEAJ) 17, according to preliminary statistics released in May 2016, the Japanese system (chips) semiconductor manufacturing equipment orders and billing than (the book - to - bill thewire, BB value) is declined 0.12 points to 1.04, breakthrough 1 consecutive 6 months, but for 3 months to 2 degree decline, and at 6 months (since November 2015, the month was 0.91) low level; BB value higher than 1 display chip equipment needs better than the supply.
1.04 means that month 100 yen per sales products, and received new orders worth 104 yen. Chip manufacturing equipment delivery need 3-6 months, so the BB value is seen as a motor industry boom leading indicator.
According to the nikkei, fab investment in equipment to the next generation smartphone is to maintain high standards, but seems to have peaked, demand peak seems to have passed.
Statistics show that Japanese chip equipment orders in May (3 months moving average; including export) from the same month last year fell 1.2% to 1276.32 billion yen, 4 months to drop for the first time, but orders hit the billions of yen mark for 6 months in a row.
Japanese chip equipment sales that month moving average (3 months) in the same month by 11.8% year on year to 1232.50 billion yen, declining for 6 months in a row, but month sales breakthrough billions of yen for 3 months in a row.
In Tokyo, Japan's main chip equipment manufacturers including power kechuang (Tokyo Electron), Advantest Corp., Screen Holdings international Electric, Hitachi (Hitachi Kokusai Electric, Inc., remember), Nikon corp. and Canon Inc., etc.
In Tokyo, the nikkei reported on June 14, power kechuang Japan seven semiconductor (chip) devices such as business this season (April to June 2016) orders estimates about 340 billion yen, from the previous quarter (1-3 months) recession about 1, 3 quarter decline in the first time, recession main stall because smartphone demand, leading to semiconductor manufacturers for smart phones equipment investment of new products to slow.
