Semiconductor equipment spending for five consecutive years won the first in the world. The agency predicted that 2014 global semiconductor manufacturing equipment market will grow 19.3% over last year; and this growth trend is expected to continue into 2015 will be expected to grow 15.2 percent next year, reaching $ 44 billion.

SEMI year-end projections indicate that various types of wafer processing machine is still the highest revenue contribution device blocks is expected to increase by 17.8% in 2014, reaching $ 29.9 billion; packaging equipment market is forecast to increase by 30.6%, reaching $ 3 billion; semiconductor test equipment market is expected to grow 26.5%, reaching $ 3.4 billion; As for the other product categories (including fab equipment, mask and wafer manufacturing equipment) in 2014 increased by 14.8%.

In terms of regional market analysis, Taiwan, Korea and North America is still the largest semiconductor equipment capital spending area, and was growing trend. According to SEMI estimates that 2015 semiconductor equipment sales in Taiwan is still forecast to grow 28.1 percent, reaching $ 12.3 billion, will be once again the world's largest market.

Caoshi Wong, president of SEMI Taiwan, said Taiwan's semiconductor industry to invest in the foundry, memory-driven and IC packaging and testing firms, will continue steady growth, is expected to further consolidate Taiwan's leading position in the global semiconductor industry.