CHPX vs SOXQ

CHPXBGlobal X AI Semiconductor & Quantum ETF

SOXQAInvesco PHLX Semiconductor ETF

In short

CHPX Most chip ETFs stop at the chip. CHPX buys the whole AI machine: processors, the servers around them, the cooling and power gear in the data center, plus early quantum computing names, global, in roughly 40 pure-play stocks.

SOXQ SOXQ owns the semiconductor industry's landmark benchmark, the PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index, for 0.19% a year. About 30 US-listed chip names, at roughly half the fee of the typical semiconductor fund.

Stated mandate

CHPX The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Global X AI Semiconductor & Quantum Index.

SOXQ The Fund seeks to track the investment results, before fees and expenses, of the PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index.

Why people hold it

• CHPX Four sleeves, not one: AI semiconductors, compute system enablers, data center infrastructure and cooling, and quantum computing technology.globalxetfs.comglobalxetfs.com 2
• Pure-play screen with teeth: a company must earn at least 50% of revenue from those activities to qualify, which keeps sprawling conglomerates out.globalxetfs.comglobalxetfs.com 2
• Weight rules stop one megacap from becoming the fund: 10% max per stock at each rebalance, and all 5%-plus positions combined are capped at 40% of the index.globalxetfs.comglobalxetfs.com 2
• Global by design across developed and emerging markets, with a $1B market-cap floor and a traded-value screen before a new stock can enter.globalxetfs.com

• SOXQ Charges 0.19% a year against a semiconductor-fund median near 0.35%. Same industry, less friction.
• Undercuts the category's best-known tickers on fee: SMH at 0.35% and SOXX at 0.33%.
• Tracks the PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index, a focused basket of roughly 30 US chip companies. No stock-picking, no theme drift.
• A multi-billion-dollar, actively traded fund, and one of the stronger builds in the semiconductor cohort.

Worth knowing

• CHPX At 0.50%, it costs more than the 0.35% median semiconductor ETF and roughly triple plain-index rivals like CHPS (0.15%) and SOXQ (0.19%).
• Launched in 2025 and moderately traded, so there is little live history and less market depth than the entrenched chip funds.
• Roughly 40 names in a single theme, including quantum companies in an industry still early in commercialization. Concentrated swings come with the design.globalxetfs.com

• SOXQ About 30 stocks in one industry. That concentration puts it among the more volatile funds in its peer group, in both directions.
• Not the absolute cheapest chip ETF: CHPS runs 0.15%, though it tracks a different index.
• Launched in 2021, so its record is shorter than the decade-plus histories of the category's older funds.

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