SEMI: Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Sales Hit Record High of US$135.1 Billion Last Year

(Central News Agency, Hsinchu, 13th) Benefiting from the continuous expansion of advanced logic, memory, and AI-related capacities, the Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) statistics show that the total global semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales will reach US$135.1 billion in 2025, setting a new historical record with a 15% growth.

Terry Tsao, SEMI Global Chief Marketing Officer and President of SEMI Taiwan, pointed out that the new high in global semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales in 2025 highlights that the industry, driven by the acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI), is expanding capacity at an unprecedented scale and speed to respond to the growing demand for advanced logic, advanced memory, and high-bandwidth architectures.

Tsao said that from wafer fab investments to the rapid development of advanced packaging and testing, the global semiconductor ecosystem is simultaneously expanding capacity and technological capabilities to support the next wave of innovation.

SEMI stated that the global semiconductor front-end processing equipment market will grow steadily in 2025, with wafer processing equipment sales increasing by 12% year-on-year, and other front-end equipment categories also growing by 13%. The growth momentum mainly comes from the continuous expansion of advanced logic and memory capacities, while also being boosted by AI-related demand and the continuous advancement of process nodes and technologies.

As for the back-end processing equipment market, SEMI pointed out that with the increasing performance requirements and testing intensity for AI devices and high-bandwidth memory (HBM), test equipment sales increased by 55% year-on-year last year; the continuous expansion of advanced packaging technology also drove the growth of assembly and packaging equipment sales by 21%.

Observing regional performance, SEMI stated that semiconductor manufacturing equipment spending in 2025 will be highly concentrated in Asia, with China, Taiwan, and South Korea remaining the top three markets for semiconductor equipment spending, collectively accounting for 79% of the global market, higher than 74% in 2024.

Among them, China's equipment spending in 2025 will reach US$49.3 billion, a slight decrease of 0.5%, indicating that local chip manufacturers continue to invest in mature processes and some advanced capacities.

Taiwan, benefiting from AI and high-performance computing (HPC) demand, saw equipment spending surge by 90% to US$31.5 billion, setting a new historical record; South Korea, supported by strong HBM and dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) investments, saw equipment spending increase by 26% year-on-year in 2025, reaching US$25.8 billion. (Editor: Chang Liang-chih) 1150413

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