This Week in the Chain · Oct 31, 2026

This Week in the Chain — Oct 31, 2026

Oct 25, 2026 to now: Kingsemi -29.6%. Vertiv +19.7%. 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 stock app shows the percentage. It has no idea who buys from this company. Here is who Kingsemi (-29.6%) is connected to.

  1. 1SMICCustomer
  2. 2Hua Hong SemiconductorCustomer

Top gainers

  1. 1Vertiv (US-listed)$74.8B → $89.5B+19.7%
  2. 2Win Semiconductors$6.3B → $7.5B+18.8%
  3. 3Atomera (US-listed)$110M → $130M+18.2%
  4. 4Ultra Clean Holdings (US-listed)$2.0B → $2.4B+16.1%
  5. 5Entegris (US-listed)$20.6B → $23.6B+14.8%

Top decliners

360 companies moved at least 1% since Oct 25, 2026. That is price times shares outstanding, and it is not a view on any of them.

  1. 1Kingsemi$8.1B → $5.7B-29.6%
  2. 2Beijing Huafeng Test & Control (AccoTest)$8.3B → $6.1B-26.7%
  3. 3Eoptolink Technology$54.6B → $41.1B-24.8%
  4. 4Giantec Semiconductor$3.1B → $2.4B-22.5%
  5. 5Shengyi Technology$40.4B → $31.8B-21.4%

Chokepoint spotlight

IQE: Leading epitaxial compound-semiconductor wafer maker (GaAs, GaN, InP). This has been true for a while, not since Monday.

  1. 1Skyworks SolutionsDepends on it
  2. 2QorvoDepends on it
  3. 3BroadcomDepends on it
  4. 4Lumentum HoldingsDepends on it
  5. 5TSMCDepends on it

A standing feature that rotates weekly, not news.

Data coverage: 429/615 companies priced; 435 with SEC financials. Market data as of 2026-10-30; report generated 2026-10-31. 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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