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).
