Aluf Holdings Inc (AHIX)

[mike306oh]

(*) Released on the opening day of the annual SEMICON West exposition in San Francisco, CA this quarter, the mid-year edition of the SEMI Capital Equipment Forecast shows an improving outlook for the chip equipment industry. Following two years of conservative capital investments by major chip manufacturers, SEMI forecasts equipment sales will reach $43.98 billion in 2014, a 21 percent increase over estimated 2013 equipment spending ($36.29 billion).

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(*) It’s thought that front-end wafer processing equipment will grow 24 percent in 2014 to $35.59 billion, up from $28.70 billion in 2013, while test equipment and assembly and packaging equipment will also experience growth next year, rising to $3.18 billion (up six percent) and $2.9 billion (+14 percent), respectively.

(*) For more info, see: http://www.gasworld.com/features/report-cites-strong-growth-ahead/2002661.article

Note: The first line of the first Table should read "Wafer Processing(**)" & not "Water Processing," an obvious typo.

(**) One of the best of WAFR strong IP, knowhow, and dedicated software, along with its well known software already included into the top of the line test equipment's.

Mike