Semiconductors Sector Scorecard - Thematic Intelligence

Semiconductors Sector Scorecard - Thematic Intelligence

Summary

Companies scoring strongly in artificial intelligence (AI) and geopolitics-related themes lead the thematic screen of GlobalData’s semiconductors sector scorecard. Indeed, AI and specifically AI chips, geopolitics, and China impact jointly account for 50% of the weighting of the thematic screen, reflecting both the growing importance of AI, particularly generative AI, in the technology industry and the impact of the ongoing US-China trade dispute. The list is led by companies with advanced AI products, such as Nvidia, Amazon, Tesla, and Alibaba, or capital equipment technologies essential to manufacture those advanced AI chips, such as ASML.

Key Highlights

Changes this quarter include the upgrade of AMD and the downgrade of Micron. The former was due to the launch of its first AI accelerator, the MI300X chip, to try to catch up with Nvidia's H100, which currently dominates the AI workloads in the data center, particularly among hyperscalers. The latter was by China from key infrastructure projects in retaliation for the various bans the US has imposed on the export of advanced chip technology to China and the participation of Chinese companies in US infrastructure.

Scope

• This sector scorecard provides a top-down, comprehensive outlook for the key players in the semiconductors sector over the next two years, based on the key themes set to transform their industry landscape.

Reasons to Buy

• Companies that invest in the right themes become success stories. Those that miss the important themes in their industry end up as failures.
• GlobalData’s thematic research ecosystem is a single, integrated global research platform that provides an easy-to-use framework for tracking all themes across all companies in all sectors. It has a proven track record of identifying the important themes early, enabling companies to make the right investments ahead of the competition, and secure that all-important competitive advantage.
• At GlobalData, we have developed a unique thematic methodology for ranking all major companies in all major sectors based on their relative strength in the big themes that are impacting their industries.
• Our thematic engine tags over 145 million data items across five alternative data sets—patents, jobs, deals, filings, and news—to themes. The vast datasets within our thematic engine help our analysts to produce sector scorecards that identify the companies best placed to succeed in a future filled with multiple disruptive threats.