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

What if HBM capacity sold out through next year tightens GPU supply?

High-bandwidth-memory output is fully booked, making HBM — not logic — the binding constraint on GPU shipments and handing memory suppliers extraordinary pricing power.

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-on shock. High-bandwidth-memory output is fully booked, making HBM — not logic — the binding constraint on GPU shipments and handing memory suppliers extraordinary pricing power. 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▲ +0.5%
hist -0.98–+2.66% · other way +0.05% (n=12)
2Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.5%
hist -0.03–+0.75% · other way +3.0% (n=12)
3Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.5%
hist -6.83–+1.32% · other way -7.92% (n=12)
4Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.5%
hist -1.41–+0.92% · other way -6.77% (n=12)
5Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▲ +0.4%
model prior · unmeasured
6MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.4%
hist -6.21–+18.88% · other way -2.06% (n=12)
7Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.4%
hist -0.08–+0.33% · other way -7.74% (n=12)
8Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist +0.07–+0.32% · other way +0.59% (n=12)
9Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.3%
hist -0.4–+0.29% · other way -0.12% (n=12)
10Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▼ -0.3%
hist -0.49–+0.06% · other way +4.08% (n=12)
11Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.2%
hist -1.22–+2.74% · other way -1.24% (n=12)
12Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.2%
hist -0.46–+0.17% · other way +0.58% (n=12)
13AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.2%
hist -3.64–+0.72% · other way +1.77% (n=12)
14Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.2%
hist -0.32–+0.22% · other way +3.31% (n=12)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
For a common-man portfolio: A typical stock-heavy portfolio should benefit. Stay invested; you can lean modestly into the beneficiaries below.
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.

TSMC slumps as DeepSeek roils AI-chip demand assumptions 2025-02 Megacap AI-capex doubt selloff 2024-07 Nikkei 225 surpasses its 1989 bubble peak 2024-02 Neuralink implants its first human brain-computer interface 2024-01 Nvidia AI-guidance blowout ignites the automation/AI capex wave 2023-05 OpenAI releases GPT-4 2023-03 ChatGPT launches 2022-11 CHIPS and Science Act signed 2022-07 AlphaFold cracks the protein-folding problem 2020-11 AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol 2016-03 India RBI growth-pivot rate cut 2025-12 Platinum hits an 11-year high on Chinese jewelry demand and deficit 2025-06 Bitcoin tops $111,970 for a new all-time high 2025-05 Micron's weak FQ2 guidance sparks a sharp December selloff 2024-12 Nasdaq Composite first close above 20000 2024-12 Marvell's Q3 FY2025 AI-silicon results drive a record surge 2024-12 S&P 500 first close above 6000 2024-11 Palladium jumps after US pushes G7 sanctions on Russian metal 2024-10 TSMC's Q3 2024 blowout lifts shares on surging AI demand 2024-10 ASML bookings-miss crash 2024-10 Nvidia slips despite a Q2 FY2025 earnings beat 2024-08 Nikkei 225 record single-day rebound 2024-08 Report of a Blackwell design flaw signals a multi-month delay 2024-08 Trump 'Taiwan should pay for defense' chip selloff 2024-07 Nvidia becomes world's most valuable company 2024-06 Alphabet announces its first-ever dividend 2024-04 Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russian refineries, lifting crude and gasoline 2024-03 S&P 500 first close above 5000 2024-02 ARM's first earnings as a public company spark a huge rally 2024-02 ARM debuts on Nasdaq with a 25% first-day pop 2023-09 Nifty 50 first crosses 20000 2023-09 LK-99 room-temperature superconductor claim 2023-07 China imposes gallium and germanium export controls 2023-07 Nifty 50 first crosses 19000 2023-06 Strong May 2023 jobs report jolts yields higher 2023-06 Alibaba announces historic split into six business units 2023-03 TSMC cuts 2023 capex on chip-demand downturn 2023-01 European TTF gas hits all-time record high 2022-08 Netflix subscriber-loss crash 2022-04 Meta 2022-02
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
SOL SOLSHORT-5.9% · 5d -5.5%73%39 0.33⚠ differs
AMD AMDSHORT-3.1% · 5d -2.5%72%40 0.33⚠ differs
SPX SPXLONG+0.5% · 5d +0.2%68%40 0.31✓ matches cascade
XLK XLKSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.7%70%40 0.30⚠ differs
MSTR MSTRLONG+17.1% · 5d +3.3%60%40 0.20✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10LONG+8bp · 5d +2bp62%40 0.19·
NDX NDXSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.9%62%40 0.16⚠ differs
Gold XAULONG+0.8% · 5d -0.4% ↺ fades60%40 0.16·
US dollar DXYSHORT-0.1% · 5d -0.0%60%40 0.16·
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.2% · 5d +0.0% ↺ fades60%40 0.14·
MRVL MRVLSHORT-0.4% · 5d -1.5%58%40 0.12⚠ differs
MU MUSHORT-1.6% · 5d -2.7%54%40 0.06⚠ differs
NVDA NVDALONG+2.3% · 5d -1.5% ↺ fades48%40 0.00✓ matches cascade
AVGO AVGOLONG+0.4% · 5d -1.6% ↺ fades48%40 0.00✓ 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.