On February 27th, according to statistics released by the Japan Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Association (SEAJ) on the 26th, in January of this year, Japan's semiconductor equipment sales (three-month moving average including exports) were 315.512 billion yen, a year-on-year increase of 5.2%, marking the first year-on-year growth in nearly 8 months. Monthly sales exceeded the 300 billion yen mark for two consecutive months, reaching a new high after April 2023 (333.9 billion yen), Compared to December 2023, it increased by 3.2% month on month, showing three consecutive months of month on month growth.

Last year, the sales of semiconductor equipment in Japan decreased by 6.7% year-on-year to 3287.245 billion yen, marking the first time in nearly four years that the company has experienced a year-on-year decline. However, annual sales have exceeded the 3 trillion yen mark for three consecutive years, setting a second highest record, only lower than the 3851.699 billion yen in 2022.

It is worth mentioning that Tokyo Electronics, a major Japanese semiconductor equipment manufacturer, announced its financial report on February 9, pointing out that the market size of global chip front-end manufacturing equipment (Wafer Fab Equipment, WFE) in 2024 was revised up to about $100 billion, close to the record high in 2022, due to the strong demand for semiconductor equipment from customers in Chinese Mainland, and the investment in the most advanced DRAM equipment is expected to recover in the second half of this year, Meanwhile, it is expected that there will be a double-digit growth rate in 2025 (compared to 2024). Tokyo Electronics originally estimated the WFE market size to be $200 billion from 2024 to 2025 (a total of two years).

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