Week Ending: 14 August 2026

Taiwan TW Technology Industry

Semiconductor Equipment & Materials

For the week ending 14 August 2026, Semiconductor Equipment & Materials advanced 3.27% with 23 advancing, 4 declining, and 1 unchanged constituents. The index is equal weighted and the constituent tape shows uncapped security returns.

Current architecture Deceleration

The positive Trend gate remains, but fan energy or fast-line momentum is cooling.

77 technical evidence
Index5280.47 1 week3.27% Breadth82% Members28
Country 🇹🇼 Taiwan · TW
Sector Technology
Universe country-listed
Price basis Adjusted weekly close

Trend architecture

Index, activity fan and structural anchors

Rolling 156-week evidence. Trend Signal points mark weeks when price, trend and the activity fan confirmed together.

Index Value Trend Line Fair Value Activity Lines Constructive architecture Transitional architecture Defensive architecture
Current architecture Deceleration 4 completed weeks in this state
Trend acceptance 17.2% Index versus Trend Line
Persistence 100% Positive across every horizon
Participation 82% 23 advancing, 4 declining

Investor positioning lens

Is the evidence ready for capital?

A rules-based technical classification using trend, breadth, persistence, relative strength and path quality.

Current posture Wait for re-acceleration

Headline strength is not yet confirmed by the current Activity Line energy and constituent trend mix.

77 technical evidence
out of 100
Evidence balance

Five-pillar map

Wait
Trend
81
Breadth
66
Persistence
85
Relative
80
Risk quality
68
What supports the view
  • The index remains above a constructive Trend gate.
  • Participation is broad enough to support the index move.
  • Constituent trends show positive multi-horizon persistence.
  • Medium-term relative returns and peer standing remain constructive.
What restrains conviction
  • The current 13-week parent-relative trend is weakening.
  • Activity Line energy is decelerating despite the positive Trend gate.
  • The index is extended well above current Fair Value, increasing chase risk.

This is a weekly research classification, not personal investment advice. Sentiment is reported as an independent confirmation layer and does not alter the technical score.

Trend state and durability

Architecture, persistence and constituent regimes

The index path is tested against the underlying security-level trend evidence.

Index architecture Deceleration

The positive Trend gate remains, but fan energy or fast-line momentum is cooling.

State age4 weeks
Trend gateUp
Fan width5.83%
Fast versus slow change-11.10 pts
Above 17% Below 17%
Six completed weeks of price acceptance relative to the full Activity Line fan.
Index persistence

Positive across every horizon

100% agreement

The 13, 26, 39 and 52-week trends all point upward, giving the advance broad horizon agreement.

13-week
7.9%
26-week
64.4%
39-week
85.0%
52-week
114.7%
Regime age50 weeks 52-week flips3 52-week boundary2459.03
Constituent trend persistence

Is the index move broadly durable?

100% coverage
Coherent positive43%
Coherent negative0%
Average horizon agreement82%
Positive horizon share77%
Weakening positives11
Repairing negatives2

28 constituents measured as of 14 Aug 2026. Median trend age is 34 weeks.

Custom stage map

Where constituents sit in the cycle

Stage Analysis coverage is still building.

Capital rotation

Performance relative to Technology

Weakening
Relative index 13-week relative trend Starting level
Rotation dashboard Weakening

A rising relative line means this group is compounding faster than Technology. A falling line means capital has done better in the parent benchmark.

Relative index142.2
13-week trend143.1
4-week trend change1.53%
Weekly peer rank5 of 11
1 week
0.1 pts relative
4 weeks
-2.9 pts relative
13 weeks
2.6 pts relative
26 weeks
32.7 pts relative
52 weeks
63.6 pts relative

Market internals

Participation, dispersion and path risk

Equal-weight index evidence with constituent-level breadth and dispersion.

Breadth

Participation quality

Broad
Advancing
23
Declining
4
Unchanged
1
4-week average 56%
13-week average 51%
Risk and persistence

Path quality

52-week lens
Annualised weekly volatility38.2%
Drawdown from 52-week high-13.2%
Positive weeks, last 1346%
Current directional run2 weeks
Turnover versus 13-week norm52%
Breadth impulse33.9 pts
Cross-section

Return distribution

28 measured
Q1 0.8% Median 3.4% Q3 4.6%
Average winner4.5%
Average loser-2.7%
Dispersion4.0 pts
Top-five upside share46%
Top-five capital share75%
Capital data coverage100%

Dispersion describes how far constituent outcomes are spreading apart. Capital concentration is contextual only; the index itself is equal weighted.

Momentum cycle

30-week persistence

Positive readings show expansion. Negative readings show contraction.

Breadth cycle

Net participation

Advancers less decliners as a percentage of measured constituents.

News and narrative

Does company news confirm the market tape?

Open Sentiment Intelligence
Sentiment evidence is still developing

Qualified company-level news coverage is not yet broad enough to influence the group view.

0 qualified records across 28 measured constituents.

Leadership tape

Leaders, laggards and contribution shape

Latest completed week, ranked on uncapped constituent returns.

Constituent ledger

Industry constituents

All 28 measured constituents, ranked by latest weekly return.

Rank Ticker Company Exchange Market cap Close Index contribution Return
1 3532 Formosa Sumco Technology Corporation TAI 138.07B 356.00 0.50 pts
13.92%
2 3055 Spirox Corporation TAI 13.08B 116.00 0.43 pts
12.08%
3 5222 Transcom, Inc. TAI 11.20B 123.00 0.33 pts
9.33%
4 3450 Elite Advanced Laser Corporation TAI 74.30B 510.00 0.25 pts
6.92%
5 6658 SynPower Co., Ltd. TAI 5.86B 161.00 0.19 pts
5.23%
6 3563 Machvision Inc. TAI 43.94B 687.00 0.17 pts
4.89%
7 3189 Kinsus Interconnect Technology Corp. TAI 454.20B 862.00 0.17 pts
4.74%
8 3016 Episil-Precision Inc. TAI 29.76B 102.50 0.16 pts
4.59%
9 7769 Hon. Precision, Inc. TAI 1.19T 6590.00 0.15 pts
4.27%
10 2455 Visual Photonics Epitaxy Co., Ltd. TAI 70.17B 379.50 0.15 pts
4.26%
11 2481 PANJIT International Inc. TAI 52.73B 138.00 0.13 pts
3.76%
12 3041 ALi Corporation TAI 3.31B 23.30 0.13 pts
3.56%
13 8028 Phoenix Silicon International Corporation TAI 47.82B 263.00 0.13 pts
3.54%
14 8110 Walton Advanced Engineering, Inc. TAI 24.12B 46.85 0.12 pts
3.42%
15 6196 Marketech International Corp. TAI 112.37B 510.00 0.12 pts
3.34%
16 3028 Zenitron Corporation TAI 16.16B 68.10 0.12 pts
3.34%
17 3150 Syncomm Technology Corp. TAI 763.28M 17.20 0.12 pts
3.30%
18 6830 Msscorps Co., Ltd. TAI 21.08B 407.00 0.08 pts
2.26%
19 2441 Greatek Electronics Inc. TAI 67.54B 120.00 0.08 pts
2.13%
20 2338 Taiwan Mask Corporation TAI 12.97B 39.65 0.07 pts
1.93%
21 3035 Faraday Technology Corporation TAI 45.21B 173.50 0.03 pts
0.87%
22 2351 SDI Corporation TAI 33.13B 171.00 0.02 pts
0.59%
23 6271 Tong Hsing Electronic Industries, Ltd. TAI 40.56B 194.00 0.01 pts
0.26%
24 2369 Lingsen Precision Industries, Ltd. TAI 12.39B 33.10 0.00 pts
0.00%
25 2493 Ampoc Far-East Co., Ltd. TAI 37.99B 212.50 -0.04 pts
-1.16%
26 2302 Rectron Limited TAI 7.02B 42.20 -0.06 pts
-1.63%
27 6533 Andes Technology Corporation TAI 12.49B 246.50 -0.13 pts
-3.71%
28 3413 Foxsemicon Integrated Technology Inc. TAI 32.67B 295.50 -0.16 pts
-4.37%

The index uses capped equal-weight weekly constituent returns. The ledger shows uncapped security returns so outliers remain visible for research.

Evidence context