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To: StanX Long who wrote (64050)	5/27/2002 10:02:40 PM
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Rebound makes Taiwan the third largest chip tool market, says report Semiconductor Business News (05/24/02 11:45 a.m. EST) siliconstrategies.com SAN JOSE -- Taiwan edged out Europe as the world's third largest market for semiconductor equipment in the first quarter of 2002 as the island's chip makers increased purchases of production tools by 33.3% to $540 million in Q1 vs. $400 million in Q4 of 2001, said a new report on worldwide billings. During the last semiconductor downturn cycle, Europe had passed up Taiwan in semiconductor equipment purchases, becoming the third largest market for chip tools behind Japan and North America. With silicon foundries and memory makers beginning to increase their budgets this year, Taiwan's semiconductor equipment billings grew faster than any other region in the first quarter (see table below). Europe's chip gear purchases totaled about $440 million in Q1, a 23.1% sequential drop from $570 million in Q4 of 2001 and a 72.3% plunge from $1.58 billion in the firest quarter of 2001, said the report, which was released by Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) on Thursday. North America remained the world's largest market for semiconductor equipment purchases, with sales totaling $1.46 billion in the first quarter, a 4.4% increase from $1.40 billion in Q4 last year. Japan was No. 2 with $930 million in chip equipment billings in Q1, a decline of 5.2% from $980 million in Q4.