Building on a Solid Year

摘要

December Is A Time To Review The Highlights of the past 12 months and look ahead to the New Year. By most accounts, 2007 will end up as a solid year for the semiconductor equipment and materials industry, with combined revenues of $82 billion, up 7 percent from last year. The 2007 forecasts for device sales started out the year averaging 8 percent. However, the old nemesis of eroding ASPs will see full-year growth come in at under 3 percent, which in turn has slowed equipment sales.