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Mapping the semiconductor supply chain

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Market+2.38%
Divergences4
Top MoverWOLF+15.39%
2026-04-16

Latest News

SHORTAGE14h ago

TSMC Chases Soaring AI Demand

EE Times
SHORTAGE18h ago

Analytics group signals possible delays at 40% of AI data center construction sites — companies deny schedule holdups, but satellite imagery indicates otherwise

Tom's Hardware

Supply Chain Layers

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AI Infrastructure

+3.91%
6
AMZN
9 links
Amazon Web Services
CRWV
3 links
CoreWeave
GOOGL
9 links
Google Cloud
—
1 links
Lambda Labs
MSFT
9 links
Microsoft Azure
ORCL
7 links
Oracle Cloud

EDA & Design Tools

+5.16%
2
CDNS
9 links
Cadence
SNPS
8 links
Synopsys

Design & IP

+2.66%
10
AMD
17 links
AMD
ARM
8 links
ARM Holdings
AAPL
13 links
Apple
AVGO
17 links
Broadcom
INTC
17 links
Intel
MRVL
9 links
Marvell
2454.TW
3 links
MediaTek
NVDA
29 links
NVIDIA
QRVO
4 links
Qorvo
QCOM
17 links
Qualcomm

Foundry & Logic

+2.85%
6
GFS
6 links
GlobalFoundries
0981.HK
5 links
SMIC
005930.KS
16 links
Samsung Foundry
TSM
40 links
TSMC
TSEM
2 links
Tower Semiconductor
UMC
1 links
United Microelectronics Corporation

Memory

-1.52%
4
MU
10 links
Micron
000660.KS
7 links
SK Hynix
005930.KS
8 links
Samsung Memory
WDC
4 links
Western Digital

IDM (Integrated)

+3.50%
9
ADI
4 links
Analog Devices
IFX.DE
6 links
Infineon
MCHP
3 links
Microchip Technology
NXPI
4 links
NXP Semiconductors
ON
4 links
ON Semiconductor
6723.T
4 links
Renesas Electronics
STM
4 links
STMicroelectronics
SWKS
4 links
Skyworks Solutions
TXN
6 links
Texas Instruments

Equipment

-1.92%
11
ASML
17 links
ASML
6857.T
5 links
Advantest
AMAT
12 links
Applied Materials
COHR
9 links
Coherent Corp
KLAC
8 links
KLA Corporation
LRCX
4 links
Lam Research
6920.T
3 links
Lasertec
LITE
7 links
Lumentum
7735.T
3 links
Screen Holdings
TER
4 links
Teradyne
8035.T
4 links
Tokyo Electron

Packaging & Test

+1.87%
3
ASX
8 links
ASE Technology
AMKR
7 links
Amkor Technology
600584.SS
3 links
JCET Group

Materials & Substrates

+4.77%
6
DD
3 links
DuPont
ENTG
3 links
Entegris
4185.T
3 links
JSR Corporation
3436.T
5 links
SUMCO
4063.T
4 links
Shin-Etsu Chemical
WOLF
5 links
Wolfspeed

Key Bottlenecks

EUV Lithography

ASML remains the sole global supplier of EUV lithography sys...

CoWoS Advanced Packaging

TSMC's CoWoS packaging remains the critical bottleneck for h...

High Bandwidth Memory

HBM supply concentrated among SK Hynix, Samsung, and Micron....

Supply Chain Layers

AI Infrastructure

Cloud providers and hyperscalers building GPU clusters for A...

EDA & Design Tools

Electronic Design Automation software used to design chips. ...

Design & IP

Companies that design chips and license intellectual propert...

Key Companies

TSMC

World's largest dedicated independent ('pure-play') semicond...

NVIDIA

NVIDIA is a fabless designer of GPUs, SoCs, and APIs for gam...

AMD

Fabless developer of CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, SoCs, microprocessor...

© 2026·Lance Tuller·@lance0·Ko-fi
57 companies · 9 segments · 9 bottlenecks
FAB21h ago

Intel hires tenured Samsung exec to lead Foundry Services — signals company focus on winning business from potential Foundry suitors

Tom's Hardware
EARNINGS22h ago

TSMC ups revenue guidance and CapEx, buoyed by 'multiyear AI megatrend' — warns Middle East conflict may impact profitability as costs increase

Tom's Hardware
EARNINGS1d ago

TSMC warns of Intel Foundry's growing prowess during the company's latest earnings call — 'We view Intel as our formidable competitor and do not underestimate them'

Tom's Hardware
EARNINGS1d ago

Chip Industry Week In Review

Semiconductor Engineering
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Key Constraints

EUV capacity constrained

ASML sole supplier of EUV lithography

CoWoS packaging backlog

Advanced packaging limiting AI chip supply

HBM supply tight

SK Hynix, Samsung at max output

TSMC concentration

92% of advanced node capacity

Geopolitical risk

Taiwan, Korea supply concentration

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