Shortage of quick couplings for liquid cooling costs Supermicro $800 million in delayed revenue

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Sometimes, shortages of tiny components that can hardly be called 'high-tech' cost companies tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. This happened to Supermicro, which could not get enough quick couplings for liquid cooling systems, which made it postpone shipments of products and delayed $800 million of revenue from one quarter to another, reports Economic Daily News.

"Some key new components shortage delayed about $800 million of revenue shipments to July, which lowered our EPS for June and will be recognized in our September quarter," said Charles Liang, chief executive of Supermicro, at the company's earnings call last week (via SeekingAlpha).

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Anton Shilov
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Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

  • yahrightthere
    Everyone is capitalizing on AI, even if you're not in the market of making AI, just create a shortage on an component required for AI & voila, get your fingers in that slice of AI pie!
    Gotta love capitalism
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  • Alvar "Miles" Udell
    Makers are capitalizing on AI, buyers are praying AI pays off before their multi-billion dollar purchases show up on their balance sheets and investors get fed up and dump their stocks.
    Reply
  • Amdlova
    IF need water to run I keep away from it.
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