In February the equipment order growth strong growth of 6% indicates that the chip industry

According to foreign reports, February chip manufacturing equipment orders growth of 6% compared to January, nearly two years the volume of orders for the first time exceeded shipments. According to the International Semiconductor Equipment Materials Association (SEMI) said the February chip equipment orders increased from $1 billion 230 million in January to $1 billion 300 million, with single - concern shipments ratio is 1.01, which is since 2004 the number of over 1 for the first time since August. The figure in January was 0.97.

Stanley, President of SEMI said in a statement, the last quarter orders and shipments growth is a strong growth in the chip industry barometer, chip manufacturers are investing heavily in the deployment of advanced technology and expand production scale.

On Tuesday, IC Insights chip industry investment growth in 2006 is expected to increase from 4% to 10%. It expects this year's chip industry capital investment will reach $50 billion 400 million.

The report believes that investment growth will not cause excess capacity in the chip industry, but at the same time warned that some areas represented by flash memory may be a serious oversupply. Reported that the increase in investment in new vendors and existing vendors, making the flash memory in the end of 2006 or early 2007 there is a risk of excess capacity.