🧠 Technology & AI risk-off · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if SMIC/Huawei domestic-stack acceleration erodes US chip share?

Accelerated indigenous logic, memory and tooling from SMIC and Huawei lets China substitute domestic chips, permanently shrinking the addressable market for US suppliers.

32%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 32% · 90% range 9–55% · 40 analogues · measured class supply_chain 46% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — supply_chain ≈0.2052/yr → 46% in 3 yr46%
Analyst prior · editorial share 74% of the class34%
Pooled · weight 87%33%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)33%
Published32%

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 1–3 years 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. Accelerated indigenous logic, memory and tooling from SMIC and Huawei lets China substitute domestic chips, permanently shrinking the addressable market for US suppliers. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Risk appetite ▼ · Semiconductor supply risk ▲ · Trade tension ▲ — 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
1TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -2.1%
hist -1.51–-0.67% · other way +1.64% (n=12)
2Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.9%
hist -1.35–-0.38% · other way +4.13% (n=12)
3Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.9%
hist -1.14–-0.39% · other way +1.4% (n=12)
4Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -1.8%
hist -1.33–-0.33% · other way -0.05% (n=12)
5ASML ASMLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.4%
hist -3.79–+0.95% · other way -0.91% (n=12)
6Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.3%
hist -0.77–-0.42% · other way +0.37% (n=12)
7AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.2%
hist -1.21–+0.51% · other way -2.72% (n=12)
8Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.2%
hist -1.17–+1.6% · other way +5.76% (n=12)
9Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.2%
hist -3.09–+0.4% · other way -1.7% (n=12)
10Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.2%
hist -1.04–+0.66% · other way -0.28% (n=12)
11Alibaba BABAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -0.64–-0.31% · other way -0.79% (n=12)
12Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.8%
hist -10.52–+2.06% · other way -17.76% (n=11)
13Qualcomm QCOMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -3.37–+0.84% · other way -3.2% (n=12)
14MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.8%
hist -0.82–+0.38% · other way +8.12% (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 -1.3% · Chinese yuan -0.7% · Aussie dollar -0.3% · Freeport (copper) -0.3% · High-yield credit -0.2% · Turkish lira -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.

China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 TSMC slumps as DeepSeek roils AI-chip demand assumptions 2025-02 Micron's weak FQ2 guidance sparks a sharp December selloff 2024-12 ASML bookings-miss crash 2024-10 Megacap AI-capex doubt selloff 2024-07 Trump 'Taiwan should pay for defense' chip selloff 2024-07 Netflix subscriber-loss crash 2022-04 Meta 2022-02 Didi removed from China app stores after NYSE IPO 2021-07 Chinese yuan breaks 7 per dollar; US names China manipulator 2019-08 Nvidia crypto-glut guidance crash 2018-11 Mexican peso crash on Trump 2016 win 2016-11 Smoot-Hawley clears the US House 1929-05 Record $19bn crypto liquidation cascade 2025-10 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 US-China extend tariff truce by another 90 days 2025-08 Trump's 50% copper tariff sends Comex copper to a record 2025-07 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 US and China agree Geneva tariff truce, slashing rates 2025-05 Tariff-pause record rally and VIX collapse 2025-04 Trump signs 25% Section 232 tariff on imported automobiles 2025-03 Tesla shares crater on DOGE political backlash and Europe sales collapse 2025-03 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 Nikkei 225 record single-day rebound 2024-08 Nikkei 225 worst single-day crash since 1987 2024-08 KOSPI biggest-ever point loss triggers circuit breaker 2024-08 VIX third-highest spike on record 2024-08 Report of a Blackwell design flaw signals a multi-month delay 2024-08 Intel's Q2 earnings trigger its worst single-day crash since 1974 2024-08 India slashes gold import duty from 15% to 6% in 2024 budget 2024-07 India's Modi loses single-party majority 2024-06 Mexico's Sheinbaum landslide + supermajority scare 2024-06 Nikkei 225 surpasses its 1989 bubble peak 2024-02 ARM debuts on Nasdaq with a 25% first-day pop 2023-09 China imposes gallium and germanium export controls 2023-07 Wagner Group mutiny against the Kremlin 2023-06 Turkish lira hits record low after Erdogan re-election 2023-05 First Republic Bank seized and sold to JPMorgan 2023-05
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-8.4% · 5d -5.8%76%38 0.41✓ matches cascade
INTC INTCSHORT-5.6% · 5d -3.7%67%39 0.34✓ matches cascade
KRW KRWLONG+0.6% · 5d -0.0% ↺ fades67%39 0.30⚠ differs
KWEB KWEBSHORT-2.6% · 5d -1.2%67%39 0.29✓ matches cascade
Gold XAULONG+1.3% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades67%39 0.29·
SOL SOLSHORT-8.8% · 5d -6.5%70%36 0.27✓ matches cascade
FCX FCXSHORT-1.8% · 5d -1.9%65%39 0.25✓ matches cascade
XCU XCUSHORT-0.8% · 5d -0.8%65%39 0.25✓ matches cascade
NDX NDXSHORT-0.5% · 5d -1.4%67%39 0.24✓ matches cascade
TRY TRYSHORT-1.6% · 5d +0.8% ↺ fades65%39 0.24✓ matches cascade
MU MUSHORT-2.2% · 5d -3.2%63%39 0.21✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-4.7% · 5d -3.2%63%39 0.20✓ matches cascade
GBPUSD GBPUSDLONG+0.2% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades62%39 0.18⚠ differs
AVGO AVGOLONG+2.1% · 5d -2.0% ↺ fades60%39 0.17⚠ differs

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.