On July 1, the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ) uploaded in its website the forecast of the semiconductor/FPD braking device for a period from 2021 to 2023.
　
Kazuo Ushida said in his beginning speech, “While the demand for semiconductor is rapidly growing to cause a short supply, large-scale investments in semiconductor equipment are active and the trend will remain from now on. It is estimated that the Japanese market of semiconductor equipment will exceed 3 trillion yen in 2022.”

　In terms of the sales of semiconductor equipment, it marked ¥2,383.5 billion up 15.0% in 2020, and our forecast has been reviewed to be 2,920 billion yen up 22.5% in 2021, 3,70 billion yen up 5.1 in 2022 and 3,220 billion yen up 4.9% in 2023.

In the field of FPD producing equipment, more than three fourth of Japan-made equipment has been taken for export to China. In 2020 the Chinese market stayed stagnant amounting to 463.8 billion yen, down 2.5%. We forecast a stable growth to mark 470 billion yen, up 1.3% in 2021, 480 billion yen up 2.1% in 2022 and 500 billion yen, up 4.2% in 2023.