🧠 Technology & AI risk-off · 6–18 months
A what‑if from the future

What if GPU gross-margin compression as competition arrives?

Credible competing accelerators and customer ASICs force the GPU leader to defend share on price, compressing its ~75% gross margin and re-rating the stock.

24%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 24% · 90% range 3–45% · 40 analogues · measured class supply_chain 26% in 18 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — supply_chain ≈0.2052/yr → 26% in 18 mo26%
Analyst prior · editorial share 100% of the class55%
Pooled · weight 87%25%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)25%
Published24%

The class rate is measured from our dated, sourced event library (decade-normalized Poisson — the full table is public at base_rates.json). The variant’s share within its class is the analyst’s editorial call, published so you can audit it. A wider range means thinner precedent. Full recipe: methodology · scored at Reality Check.

The butterfly cascade

How this trigger trickles across markets, left → right — the root shock, its first‑order moves, then the ripple effects. Drag any node; tap a market for its real price history.

Resolution timeline — how this probability is moving

Our model's odds (gold) over time vs the crowd's (Polymarket, blue), from the past toward the 6–18 months horizon. Each dot is a real macro event that nudged the probability — green pushed it up, red pushed it down. Tap a dot for the source. The gold path is an illustrative reconstruction anchored to today's estimate — real dated events, not a live re-estimate history.

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What it would mean

If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Credible competing accelerators and customer ASICs force the GPU leader to defend share on price, compressing its ~75% gross margin and re-rating the stock. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — AI capex ▼ · Risk appetite ▼ · Semiconductor supply risk ▲ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.

If it happens — the markets it would move

Biggest moves first. Projected moves are cascade-model priors; hist A–B% = what comparable past events actually did (measured abnormal returns), and model prior · unmeasured marks markets with no analogue backing yet. Tap any market for its price history.

MarketClassProjected move
1Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.1%
hist -0.85–-0.1% · other way +4.13% (n=12)
2TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -0.89–+0.37% · other way +1.64% (n=12)
3Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -0.57–+0.37% · other way +1.4% (n=12)
4Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -0.97–+0.93% · other way +5.76% (n=12)
5Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -3.56–+0.55% · other way -1.7% (n=12)
6ASML ASMLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -2.26–+0.74% · other way -0.91% (n=12)
7Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.5%
hist -10.59–+1.42% · other way -17.76% (n=11)
8AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -0.54–-0.04% · other way -2.72% (n=12)
9Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -1.02–+1.92% · other way -0.28% (n=12)
10Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.4%
model prior · unmeasured
11MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -1.56–+2.6% · other way +8.12% (n=12)
12Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.4%
hist -8.77–+2.26% · other way -0.19% (n=11)
13Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.3%
hist -0.4–-0.02% · other way -0.05% (n=12)
14Qualcomm QCOMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -2.14–+0.72% · other way -3.2% (n=12)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
Cash / hedgeRaise cash and hold the long hedges above; this scenario is net risk-off.
For a common-man portfolio: A typical stock-heavy portfolio is at risk. Consider trimming equities, raising cash, and a small cash hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector -0.2%

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 40 analogous events (overlap‑weighted), as abnormal returns — market beta stripped, so it's the event's own effect, not the market backdrop. Shown at 20 days (persistent) and 5 days (immediate); ↺ fades = the two horizons disagree. Confidence = consistency × sample × significance.

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AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
SOL SOLSHORT-8.6% · 5d -6.8%74%39 0.37✓ matches cascade
INTC INTCSHORT-4.4% · 5d -3.1%65%40 0.30✓ matches cascade
MU MUSHORT-2.8% · 5d -3.1%69%40 0.29✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-7.6% · 5d -5.6%65%40 0.24✓ matches cascade
Gold XAULONG+0.7% · 5d -0.2% ↺ fades63%40 0.22·
NDX NDXSHORT-0.2% · 5d -1.1%63%40 0.18✓ matches cascade
AMD AMDSHORT-0.3% · 5d -2.1%61%40 0.17✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-4.3% · 5d -3.1%61%40 0.17✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYSHORT-0.2% · 5d -0.0%59%40 0.16·
SMH SMHLONG+0.7% · 5d -0.7% ↺ fades57%40 0.13⚠ differs
MRVL MRVLLONG+2.0% · 5d -1.9% ↺ fades57%40 0.11⚠ differs
QCOM QCOMSHORT-1.9% · 5d -2.6%55%40 0.08✓ matches cascade
MSTR MSTRLONG+2.8% · 5d -1.3% ↺ fades51%40 0.02⚠ differs
Volatility VIXLONG+0.7% · 5d -0.8% ↺ fades51%40 0.02✓ matches cascade

Methodology. Probability and impact are anchored to history and scored against what actually happens — wins and losses, in public, at Reality Check. Crowd odds live from Polymarket & Kalshi. By Vikas Singh, Quantitative Strategist. Updated 2026-07-03.