TODAYMEMORY +5.3%SEMI EQUIPMENT +5.3%DC / NEOCLOUDS +5.3%OPTICAL +5.2%SEMI MATERIALS +4.9%PACKAGING +4.5%AI SOFTWARE -2.5%POWER GEN -3.5%
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The 18 parts of the AI supply chain

AI isn’t one trade. It’s a supply chain — chip designers, the fabs that build them, the memory feeding them, the buildings housing them, and the power plants keeping them on. Each sector below moves on its own.

As of close, Sep 18, 2026

How to use this page

It breaks AI into 18 parts of one supply chain and shows how each moved — today, this week, this month and this year. Open a sector to see the companies in it and what that part of the chain actually does. The point is to see which parts are moving differently from each other, rather than treating “AI” as one thing.

Leading sectors by timeframe

The same 18 sectors, ranked over three windows. A sector can lead the week and trail the year — which is the point of showing all three.

This weekvs the close a week ago

  1. 1AI Software▲ 4.1%
  2. 2Foundry▲ 3.7%
  3. 3Memory▲ 3.1%

This monthvs the close a month ago

  1. 1Foundry▲ 11.5%
  2. 2AI Compute▲ 9.3%
  3. 3Servers▲ 6.5%

This yearvs the close a year ago

  1. 1Memory▲ 578.8%
  2. 2Optical▲ 225.4%
  3. 3Packaging▲ 170.2%

Equal-weighted average of the companies tracked in each sector, measured to the same close as the rest of this page. Reporting, not recommendations.

18 sectors13 up today, 5 downSorted by today’s move

Memory & Storage

HBM, DRAM, flash and hard drives — where the data an AI model trains on physically sits.

Today
▲ 5.3%
1 Month
▼ 0.2%
1 Year
▲ 579%
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Semiconductor Equipment

The machines that print chips. A handful of firms, no substitutes, multi-year lead times.

Today
▲ 5.3%
1 Month
▼ 11.6%
1 Year
▲ 106%
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Data Centers & GPU Clouds

The landlords and rental fleets of the AI era — buildings full of GPUs, rented by the hour.

Today
▲ 5.3%
1 Month
▲ 0.2%
1 Year
▲ 46%
CIFRIRENAPLDNBIS+1

Optical & Photonics

Lasers and transceivers moving data between racks at light speed.

Today
▲ 5.2%
1 Month
▼ 7.3%
1 Year
▲ 225%
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Semiconductor Materials

The chemicals, filters and subsystems a chip fab physically cannot run without.

Today
▲ 4.9%
1 Month
▼ 11.2%
1 Year
▲ 115%
FORMENTGUCTTMKSI+1

Advanced Packaging

Stacking memory onto processors (CoWoS, HBM) — the physical bottleneck on AI chip supply.

Today
▲ 4.5%
1 Month
▲ 3.1%
1 Year
▲ 170%
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Data Center Construction

The contractors pouring concrete and pulling conduit for the buildings themselves.

Today
▲ 3.2%
1 Month
▼ 16.1%
1 Year
▲ 43%
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Power & Cooling Equipment

Getting electricity into a rack and heat out of it — the constraint on how dense AI can pack.

Today
▲ 2.9%
1 Month
▼ 6.9%
1 Year
▲ 33%
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Networking & Interconnect

The switches and links that let thousands of GPUs behave like one machine.

Today
▲ 2.2%
1 Month
▼ 9.8%
1 Year
▲ 53%
ANETALABCIENCRDO

Foundry (Chip Manufacturing)

The fabs that physically manufacture every AI chip — leading-edge and specialty nodes.

Today
▲ 2.0%
1 Month
▲ 11.5%
1 Year
▲ 122%
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Chip Design Software (EDA & IP)

The software and licensed blueprints used to design every AI chip before a fab ever touches it.

Today
▲ 1.9%
1 Month
▼ 2.2%
1 Year
▲ 15%
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Grid & Transmission

Transformers and high-voltage gear — the multi-year wait between a power plant and a data center.

Today
▲ 1.7%
1 Month
▼ 6.0%
1 Year
▲ 36%
ATKRHUBBPWREME

AI Compute (GPUs & Custom Chips)

The processors that actually run AI models — the reason every other sector on this map exists.

Today
▲ 0.2%
1 Month
▲ 9.3%
1 Year
▲ 150%
AMDMRVLINTCQCOM+1

Connectors & Cables

Unglamorous physical plumbing — and every AI server rack is full of it.

Today
▼ 0.2%
1 Month
▼ 5.6%
1 Year
▲ 25%
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AI Servers & Assembly

The firms that bolt chips, memory and cooling into finished racks and ship them.

Today
▼ 0.5%
1 Month
▲ 6.5%
1 Year
▲ 137%
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Hyperscalers (The Demand Signal)

The handful of buyers whose capex budgets fund everything else on this map.

Today
▼ 0.7%
1 Month
▲ 5.6%
1 Year
▼ 4%
METAORCLMSFTGOOGL+1

AI Software Infrastructure

Databases, monitoring and orchestration — the layer AI applications are actually built on.

Today
▼ 2.5%
1 Month
▼ 2.1%
1 Year
▲ 46%
NETSNOWDDOGMDB

Power Generation

Nuclear, gas and alternative power feeding the electricity demand that AI data centers created.

Today
▼ 3.5%
1 Month
▼ 1.0%
1 Year
▲ 14%
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Tickers shown are the biggest one-month movers in each sector, not the full holdings list. Data: daily close · Reporting, not recommendations.