A combination of steady shipments and declining orders in the semiconductor industry is the way the US Semiconductor Industry Association wraps up the dismal news that the book-to-bill ratio for September dipped below 1.0 for the first time in 22 months, coming in at 0.97. Shipments for September rose 6.8% to $1,261.2m – but that’s […]
A combination of steady shipments and declining orders in the semiconductor industry is the way the US Semiconductor Industry Association wraps up the dismal news that the book-to-bill ratio for September dipped below 1.0 for the first time in 22 months, coming in at 0.97. Shipments for September rose 6.8% to $1,261.2m – but that’s still 30.4% ahead of the figure for one year ago. Average monthly orders for the three months to September were 4.5% up at $1,154.4m million, but September orders were 11.5% down on those for June, and just 15.9% higher than the comparable figure a year ago. The 0.97 book-to-bill ratio compares with a revised 1.10 for July and a preliminary 1.02 for August.
