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To: Gottfried who wrote (60721)	2/19/2002 6:16:34 PM
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B2B of 0.81 semi.org!OpenDocument North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts January 2002 Book-to-Bill Ratio of 0.81 SAN JOSE, Calif., February 19, 2002 -- The North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $636.9 million in orders in January 2002 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.81, according to the January 2002 Express Report published today by Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). A book-to-bill of 0.81 means that $81 worth of new orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month. The three-month average of worldwide bookings in January 2002 was $636.9 million. The bookings figure is 1.3 percent above the revised December 2001 level of $628.5 million and 66 percent below the $1.85 billion in orders posted in January 2001. The three-month average of worldwide billings in January 2002 was $784.0 million. The billings figure is 4 percent below the revised December 2001 level of $819.3 million and 66 percent below the January 2001 billings level of $2.31 billion. "Front-end equipment bookings are at a low point for this downturn," said Stanley Myers, president and CEO of SEMI. "The improvement in overall equipment bookings, was driven by a fifty percent increase in the final manufacturing bookings. January marks the second consecutive month in which bookings for the final manufacturing equipment segment increased significantly from its previously weakened state." The SEMI book-to-bill is a ratio of three-month moving average bookings to three-month moving average billings for the North American semiconductor equipment industry. Billings and bookings figures are in millions of U.S. dollars.

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