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To: StanX Long who wrote (63348)	5/1/2002 1:36:00 AM
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Demand for Chip-Making Equipment Rebounds in March:Seaj sg.news.yahoo.com TOKYO, May 1 Asia Pulse - Demand for chip-manufacturing equipment rebounded in March, due mainly to growing purchases by Taiwanese chip fabricators, according to a Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ) report released Tuesday. However, the business environment surrounding the industry remains bleak, with orders from Japanese chip makers shrinking. Orders received by Japanese chip-production equipment makers grew 26.2 per cent year on year to 111.6 billion yen ($US866.34 million) in March, including export orders, for the first increase in 15 months. The orders fell below their year-earlier level for the first time in January 2001, due to the collapse of the global IT boom. In November of the same year, the year-on-year shrinkage in orders hit 85 per cent, floundering below the 50 billion-yen level since September. In March of this year, orders topped the 100 billion-yen level for the first time since January 2001. Among products, demand for steppers, the devices for circuit lithography, produced by Nikon Corp. (7731) and Canon Inc. (7751), increased 47 per cent year on year. Testers produced by Advantest Corp. (6857) and others had been suffering a continued plunge in demand, but the rate of decline fell to 29 per cent in March.