Sentence examples for of component shortages from inspiring English sources

Because of component shortages in 1999 and early this year, customers were pressing chipmakers to rapidly increase their production.

The iMac was to have sold for as little as $1,299, but last month Apple said that because of component shortages it was raising the price by $100 on all models.

While the company says it expects to ship one million machines in North America by the end of the year, it may end up shipping only half that amount at best because of component shortages, according to Evan Wilson, an entertainment analyst at Pacific Crest Securities.

After all, we saw cases after cases meant for an iPod touch with a camera, but maybe that rumor of component shortages was actually true and it caused Apple to push back the announcement – or delay it permanently.

Reports of component shortages among chip makers have been in the business news.

Nokia blamed the loss on component shortages, a valid concern.

As an example of how the component shortages hurt in the recent quarter, Mr. Joyce said sales of the company's large Unix servers would have grown at more than 30percentt instead of the 15percentt it achieved had it been able to build more of them.

They advertised the product heavily, but because of a component shortage, they couldn't satisfy the demand they had stoked.

But the company also said that profitability was down in its cellphone division largely because of a component shortage and because its lower-cost handsets -- which yield lower profit margins -- were selling better than its more expensive models, particularly in Europe.

Surprisingly, Solectron's says component shortages became less of a problem in recent weeks and says it will report second-quarter revenue between $5.4 billion to $5.7 billion, with per share earnings of 24 cents to 25 cents.

Component shortages have limited the release of the PlayStation 3 to 80,000 units, which will lead to 20,000 more disappointed Japanese gamers.