Amid signs of recovery in the pressure sensor market, attention is being focused on new demands.
On July 14th this year, the SEMI headquarters gave a forecast for sales in semiconductor fabrication devices, such as wafer process treatment devices, testing devices, and assembling and packaging devices.
It predicted that compared to 2008, when there was a decrease over the previous year of 31%, with sales amounting to $29.52bn, 2009 would show a further, major decrease of 52%, with sales amounting to $14.14bn.
Of this, wafer process treatment devices account for 73.7%, being forecasted to drop by 53% over the previous year, and come to $10.42bn.
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