This Week in the Chain · Nov 12, 2026

This Week in the Chain — Nov 12, 2026

Nov 8, 2026 to now: SFA Semicon +47.9%. Inventec -12.0%. Every figure above is computed from the live wafergraph dataset, not typed in by hand.

What it touches

A price chart never tells you who is upstream or downstream of a move. SFA Semicon moved the most, but its links are not researched yet, so we drop to the next name down. Here is who Haesung DS (+35.7%) is connected to.

  1. 1Samsung ElectronicsCustomer
  2. 2SK hynixCustomer

Top gainers

385 companies moved at least 1% since Nov 8, 2026. That is price times shares outstanding, and it is not a view on any of them.

  1. 1SFA Semicon$730M → $1.1B+47.9%
  2. 2Haesung DS$420M → $570M+35.7%
  3. 3MPI Corporation$10.3B → $13.8B+34.5%
  4. 4Daeduck Electronics$2.7B → $3.6B+34.2%
  5. 5Nepes$270M → $360M+33.3%

Top decliners

  1. 1Inventec$5.8B → $5.1B-12.0%
  2. 2Novatek Microelectronics$9.3B → $8.6B-7.2%
  3. 3Alibaba Group (US-listed)$272.3B → $252.6B-7.2%
  4. 4Transcend Information$3.3B → $3.0B-7.1%
  5. 5Unisem$1.6B → $1.4B-7.1%

Chokepoint spotlight

Arm Holdings: CPU architecture licensed in virtually every smartphone and most edge devices. This has been true for a while, not since Monday.

  1. 1AppleDepends on it
  2. 2QualcommDepends on it
  3. 3MediaTekDepends on it
  4. 4NVIDIADepends on it
  5. 5Samsung ElectronicsDepends on it

A standing feature that rotates weekly, not news.

Data coverage: 417/615 companies priced; 435 with SEC financials. Market data as of 2026-11-12; report generated 2026-11-12. 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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