This Week in the Chain · Oct 18, 2026
This Week in the Chain — Oct 18, 2026
Cipher Mining -33.5%. Since Oct 11, 2026: Hwatsing Technology +13.6%. Nothing above is an estimate. If a number is wrong, the data underneath it is public and you can prove it.
What it touches
A price chart never tells you who is upstream or downstream of a move. Cipher Mining moved the most, but its links are not researched yet, so we drop to the next name down. Here is who Applied Optoelectronics (-31.0%) is connected to.
- 1MicrosoftCustomer
- 2BroadcomCustomer
- 3NVIDIACustomer
- 4Arista NetworksCustomer
- 5Cisco SystemsCustomer
Top gainers
- 1Hwatsing Technology$16.7B → $19.0B+13.6%
- 2Pegatron$7.5B → $8.4B+12.0%
- 3Piotech$26.9B → $29.0B+7.7%
- 4Raydium Semiconductor$560M → $600M+7.1%
- 5Novatek Microelectronics$10.2B → $10.9B+7.0%
Top decliners
Here is what actually moved. Since Oct 11, 2026, 405 companies repriced by 1% or more.
- 1Cipher Mining (US-listed)$5.6B → $3.7B-33.5%
- 2Applied Optoelectronics (US-listed)$9.3B → $6.4B-31.0%
- 3indie Semiconductor (US-listed)$600M → $420M-30.0%
- 4Ichor Holdings (US-listed)$2.2B → $1.6B-29.5%
- 521Vianet (US-listed)$1.6B → $1.1B-29.1%
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.
- 1MicrosoftDepends on it
- 2OpenAIDepends on it
- 3Meta PlatformsDepends on it
- 4IBMDepends on it
A standing feature that rotates weekly, not news.