Semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales hit a record $135.1 billion worldwide in 2025, up 15% from $117.1 billion the year before. SEMI, the industry group for the global electronics supply chain, reported the surge is fueled by heavy investments in advanced logic, memory, and AI-driven capacity.
The front-end market showed solid gains, with wafer processing up 12% and other segments rising 13%. This came from ongoing pushes into cutting-edge logic and memory, boosted by AI demand and tech migrations to smaller nodes.
Back-end equipment didn’t lag either. Test gear billings skyrocketed 55% year-over-year, thanks to AI chips and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) demanding tougher performance checks. Assembly and packaging sales climbed 21% as advanced packaging tech kept spreading.
“With $135 billion in equipment billings, 2025 Semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales highlights how urgently the industry is scaling up for AI’s hunger for leading-edge logic, advanced memory, and high-bandwidth setups,” said SEMI President and CEO Ajit Manocha. “From new wafer fabs to booming advanced packaging and testing, the whole ecosystem is ramping capacity for the next innovation wave.”
Asia dominated spending again, with China, Taiwan, and Korea grabbing 79% of the Semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales market (up from 74% in 2024).
China held steady near highs at $49.3 billion (down just 0.5%), as local chipmakers poured money into mature nodes and some advanced ones. Taiwan exploded 90% to a record $31.5 billion on AI and high-performance computing expansions. Korea grew 26% to $25.8 billion, riding strong HBM and DRAM investments.
Japan rose 22% to $9.5 billion with domestic advanced-node pushes. Europe dropped 41% to $2.9 billion, its second straight decline hit by weak auto and industrial demand. North America eased 20% to $10.9 billion after prior buildouts. The rest of the world jumped 25% to $5.2 billion as new markets heated up.
SEMI and Japan’s Semiconductor Equipment Association (SEAJ) pulled this from member data; it’s a snapshot of monthly global equipment billings.
The data is available in the Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (WWSEMS) report.
