Gartner survey technology institutions 9, the latest published research report, today (2016) years global semiconductor capital spending is expected to decline 2% to $62.8 billion, better than the previous estimate of 4.7%.
However, Gartner, a senior research analyst David Christensen says, even if the forecasts on repairing, 2% of the damping is still very weak. Excess inventory, coupled with the PC, tablet, weak demand of mobile devices, the semiconductor industry continue. Due to the market growth slows, semiconductor industry also turned conservative for capital spending.
Gartner said the authorities in Beijing for exhibits strong attempt to semiconductor manufacturing technology, the industry can't ignore. Last year China dominated the industry integration of m&a action, shows a very positive attitude, in the next few years the global semiconductor competition is bound to appear.
Looking forward to the future, Gartner estimates semiconductor market growth will be resumed in 2017, estimates are for 10 nai metric process technology, 3 d NAND type flash memory system process in the field of research and development as well as the logic/wafer foundry demand, can make whole semiconductor capital spending growth of 4.4%.
International semiconductor equipment materials association (SEMI) announced on April 21, March 2016 semiconductor equipment manufacturers orders and billing than North America (the Book - to - Bill thewire) estimated at 1.15. 1.15 means that month $100 per shipment of the products can be received $115 worth of new orders.
Semiconductor industry giant Intel (Intel Corporation) just announced on April 19, 2017 before the middle of the world will cut 12000 jobs (equivalent to about 11% of the total number of employees). Intel will generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) in 2016 revenue growth interval estimates from 4-9% correction is 4-6% and the generally accepted accounting principles (Non - GAAP) estimate gross margin was 63% (add a couple of percentage points) was revised down to 62% (add a couple of percentage points).
