Science and Technology Innovation Chip ETF Guotai pulls back over 2%, domestic semiconductor equipment platformization is becoming increasingly mature, and structural opportunities are emerging.

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As of March 31, 2026, 13:07, the Shanghai STAR Market semiconductor chip index fell 2.47%, while the Cathay Semiconductor Chip ETF (589100) pulled back by more than 2%. Looking over a longer period, as of March 30, 2026, the Cathay Semiconductor Chip ETF has risen by a cumulative 3.33% over the past week.

On the news front, the global semiconductor industry is entering a new round of price-increase cycle. After storage chip prices continued to climb, price increases have been launched one after another across analog chips, power devices, and even the wafer foundry stage. Multiple companies have recently issued pricing adjustment notices, making the industry’s upward pricing trend clear. Analysts believe that as downstream demand rebounds, industry inventory is cleared, and the supply-side landscape is optimized, the semiconductor industry’s overall outlook is likely to continue improving. With price transmission effects gradually becoming visible, the profit space across the industrial chain is expected to open up. The industry is moving from an inventory-decline cycle to a new stage where both volume and pricing rise, and structural investment opportunities are emerging.

At the same time, SEMICON China 2026 is being held in Shanghai. The expo highlights the breakthrough progress of domestic equipment in advanced process and advanced packaging, underscoring that domestic semiconductor equipment platformization has become increasingly mature.

AI computing power explosions are currently driving the global semiconductor industry to enter the “trillion-dollar era” ahead of schedule, and it is expected that this target can be achieved by the end of 2026—several years earlier than the original forecast.

As of March 30, the Cathay Semiconductor Chip ETF has a net asset value increase of 53.00% over the past year. In the index stock-type fund category, it ranks 379/3654, placing it in the top 10.37%. In terms of return capability, as of March 30, 2026, since its inception, the Cathay Semiconductor Chip ETF’s highest single-month return is 34.67%, the longest streak of consecutive up months is 4 months, the longest consecutive up-month increase is 72.96%, the ratio of up/down months is 7/4, the average monthly return in rising months is 12.17%, the monthly profit percentage is 63.64%, and the historical probability of achieving 1-year profitability is 100.00%. As of March 30, 2026, the Cathay Semiconductor Chip ETF has outperformed the benchmark’s annualized return over the past 6 months by 3.69%, ranking in the top 3/8 among comparable funds.

Cathay Semiconductor Chip ETF (589100), off-exchange fund connection (Cathay STAR Market Semiconductor Chip ETF Initiation-Linked A: 024853; Cathay STAR Market Semiconductor Chip ETF Initiation-Linked C: 024854).