Chain Pulse — what the market is researching this week
Attention data as a product: which companies and segments readers are researching on wafergraph, blended with real news mentions, recent M&A, and market-cap moves. Every figure is grounded in the live wafergraph dataset — nothing here is a forecast or an opinion.
Data as of 2026-09-05.
Most researched this week
Ranked by aggregate, cookieless reader page views over the trailing 7 days (2026-08-29 → 2026-09-05). Scores are relative to the most-viewed company (0-100) — raw visit counts are never published. Companies tied at minimal attention are collapsed rather than ranked alphabetically.
- 1. Marvell Technology relative score 100/100
- 2. TSMC relative score 54/100
- 3. Advantest relative score 36/100
- 4. CoreWeave relative score 36/100
- 5. ASML relative score 29/100
- 6. Kyocera relative score 29/100
- 7. Lam Research relative score 29/100
- 8. Leeno Industrial relative score 29/100
- 9. Lenovo relative score 29/100
- 10. Shin-Etsu Chemical relative score 29/100
- 11. SK hynix relative score 29/100
- 12. Tokyo Ohka Kogyo relative score 29/100
- 13. JSR relative score 25/100
- 14. Kingboard Holdings relative score 25/100
- 15. Meta Platforms relative score 25/100
+ 398 others drew similar attention this week.
Trending segments
- 1. Materials relative score 100/100
- 2. Design (Fabless) relative score 91/100
- 3. AI & Data Center relative score 82/100
- 4. Equipment (Front End) relative score 67/100
- 5. Analog, Power, RF relative score 38/100
- 6. Distribution & Misc relative score 32/100
- 7. Equipment (Back End) relative score 27/100
- 8. Foundry relative score 21/100
In the news
- G.Skill drops new AMD EXPO ULL RAM for Ryzen CPUs — Flare X5X brings new ULL optimized subtimings, but pricing remains a mystery — mentions AMD (Tom's Hardware, 2026-08-31)
- Save $240 on a four-item gaming build combo from Newegg – $1,113 buys a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of Corsair DDR5 RAM, a Gigabyte X870E Motherboard, plus a free 240 — mentions Gigabyte Technology (Tom's Hardware, 2026-08-31)
- Chuwi UniBook Wildcat Lake 304 “Intel Core 3 304” Laptop Review – $449 MacBook Neo Competitor Worth It? — mentions Intel (Wccftech, 2026-08-31)
- Kingston's NV3 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD drops to $156.99 at Newegg — 27% off brings it down to just 15.7 cents per GB — mentions Kingston Technology (Tom's Hardware, 2026-08-31)
- ASUS ProArt P14 Configurations Featuring NVIDIA’s RTX Spark To Start From 24GB Unified Memory, No Proprietary Charging, But NVMe Storage Options Limited — mentions NVIDIA (Wccftech, 2026-08-31)
- In The Long Run, Nvidia NVSwitch Is The InfiniBand Of Scale Up AI Networks — mentions NVIDIA (The Next Platform, 2026-08-31)
- Nvidia takes US$3.5 billion of MediaTek's record US$3.9 billion convertible bond — mentions NVIDIA (DigiTimes Asia, 2026-08-31)
Big moves
Market-cap change since the prior dataset snapshot (2026-08-31 → 2026-09-05); only companies priced at both dates, moves of at least 1%.
Gainers
- IREN +34.7%
- Bloom Energy +23.9%
- Hut 8 +20.7%
- Cipher Mining +16.3%
- Bit Digital +15.7%
- Dell Technologies +14.2%
- Semtech +12.9%
- MediaTek +12.7%
Losers
- Credo Technology -23.7%
- Zhongke Feice Technology -18.0%
- Ciena -15.3%
- Cadence Design Systems -14.1%
- Nan Ya PCB -14.0%
- Kingsemi -14.0%
- Tongfu Microelectronics -11.8%
- LG Innotek -11.4%
Methodology: aggregate, cookieless reader attention on wafergraph, 7-day window. News mentions are a text match against headline titles, not an editorial claim.