The worldwide economic system is being rebuilt round computing, information, and synthetic intelligence (AI). NVIDIA and different semiconductor firms have dominated the market in consequence. Their share costs have soared sky-high and are fairly costly at present.

Nevertheless, if you wish to put money into the highest chipmakers, the TSX presents an affordable means to take action. The International X Synthetic Intelligence Semiconductor Index ETF (TSX:CHPS) is Canada’s first semiconductor exchange-traded fund (ETF). This ETF trades like a daily inventory, but it surely offers you publicity to the AI semiconductor worth chain.

International X Investments Canada Inc. is the funding supervisor of the ETF with internet property of $146.8 million as of November 18, 2025. At $54.25 per unit, CHPS is up 42.2% year-to-date. The three-year return is an honest 168.5%-plus.

CHPS frees you from choosing particular person shares and minimizes danger. Nonetheless, you’ll be using on the secular, long-term progress development of AI adoption. The inventory holdings will definitely generate traders’ curiosity.

Sector allocation and geographic publicity

The sector allocation is 100% expertise because the ETF focuses solely on massive world firms engaged within the design, manufacture, and distribution of semiconductors (information as of October 31, 2025).

Relating to geographic publicity, International X invests in firms from 4 international locations, particularly: the US (69.7%), Taiwan (15.4%), the Netherlands (10.2%), and the UK (+4.7%).

Word, nevertheless, that this ETF carries a “excessive” danger score. Typically, CHPS mirrors the efficiency of the high-growth expertise sector. As of this writing, TSX’s tech sector boasts an almost 12% constructive year-to-date return. The fund supervisor additionally clarifies that inventory holdings and geographic publicity are topic to vary.

Inventory holdings

Let me enumerate the highest seven inventory holdings of CHPS (as of November 14, 2025) and their respective contributions to the quickly rising tech house and place within the AI race. NVIDIA, the AI king, is the world’s most respected firm. The market cap is US$4.4 trillion, whereas the ETF’s publicity is eighteen.2%.

NVIDIA, the AI king, is the world’s most respected firm. The market cap is US$4.4 trillion, whereas the ETF’s publicity is eighteen.2%.

Broadcom provides semiconductor and infrastructure software program merchandise to crucial markets like information centres, networking, broadband, wi-fi, and storage.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is a devoted pure-play contract producer of built-in circuits (ICs). Additionally it is Taiwan’s greatest semiconductor producer.

Superior Micro Gadgets designs and develops pc processors, together with central processing models (CPUs) and graphics processing models (GPUs).

ASML Holdings, based mostly in Denmark, is the only real provider of utmost ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines. The corporate additionally manufactures the high-tech gear utilized by chipmakers.

Qualcomm is thought for its semiconductors and wi-fi telecommunications merchandise, together with foundational wi-fi applied sciences akin to 5G, 4G, and Wi-Fi.

Lam Analysis (NASDAQ:LRCX) provides wafer fabrication gear and companies to the worldwide semiconductor trade. Lam can also be a significant participant in fashionable chipmaking.

Keep away from international taxation

None of CHPS’s inventory holdings commerce on the TSX. Canadian traders are suggested to carry US shares of their Registered Retirement Financial savings Plan (RRSP) to keep away from paying the 15% international withholding tax.

Canada’s first semiconductor ETF simplifies choice whereas eliminating tax points. Furthermore, CHPS is an eligible funding in an RRSP and a Tax-Free Financial savings Account (TFSA). Go for it in the event you’d wish to personal a basket of shares that is extremely concentrated in firms whose merchandise take pleasure in huge demand within the AI realm.