This Week in the Chain · Oct 15, 2026

This Week in the Chain — Oct 15, 2026

Since Oct 11, 2026, the standout is LG Innotek -30.1%. Also this week: Hwatsing Technology +8.1%. Source: the wafergraph dataset, updated weekly.

What it touches

A price chart never tells you who is upstream or downstream of a move. Here is who LG Innotek (-30.1%) is connected to.

  1. 1AppleCustomer

Top gainers

  1. 1Hwatsing Technology$16.7B → $18.1B+8.1%
  2. 2Pegatron$7.5B → $8.1B+7.7%
  3. 3Empyrean Technology$7.6B → $8.1B+7.0%
  4. 4Novatek Microelectronics$10.2B → $10.7B+4.8%
  5. 5Piotech$26.9B → $28.2B+4.7%

Top decliners

Market caps first, because they are the fastest-moving thing on this map. 387 names moved 1% or more against Oct 11, 2026.

  1. 1LG Innotek$10.1B → $7.1B-30.1%
  2. 2Eugene Technology$2.9B → $2.1B-28.4%
  3. 3Hanmi Semiconductor$18.9B → $13.6B-28.3%
  4. 4Cipher Mining (US-listed)$5.6B → $4.1B-26.4%
  5. 5ISC$3.1B → $2.3B-26.3%

Chokepoint spotlight

CoreWeave: Largest pure-play GPU cloud (neocloud) renting NVIDIA capacity for AI. One of the most-connected names in its segment, in a standing weekly rotation, not fresh news.

  1. 1MicrosoftDepends on it
  2. 2OpenAIDepends on it
  3. 3Meta PlatformsDepends on it
  4. 4IBMDepends on it

A standing feature that rotates weekly, not news.

Data coverage: 430/615 companies priced; 435 with SEC financials. Market data as of 2026-10-15; report generated 2026-10-15. Every figure is computed from the wafergraph dataset — live market caps are price times SEC share count, nothing smoothed. Supplier and customer links are researched company by company, and only researched links are named. Educational/informational only, not investment advice.

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