Taiwan overtook Korea to be the biggest market last year buying equipment worth $17.12 billion.
China was second, buying equipment worth $13.45 billion.
Korea’s spending was down 44% at $9.97 billion to take 4th place.
North America spending jumped 40% to $8.15 billion – the third consecutive annual increase.
Wafer processing equipment dropped 6% in 2019, while other front-end segment sales grew 9%.
Assembly and packaging and test equipment sales declined 27% and 11%, respectively.
Sales to China rose across all major equipment segments except for assembly and packaging.
Source: electronicsweekly
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