During yesterday's earnings call, $DELL laid out exactly what's hitting the supply chain red lines.
We have a shortage of:
> Memory: DRAM, DRAM, DRAM, followed by NAND, NAND, NAND
> CPUs: Spotty CPU shortages
> Storage: Disk drives
> Foundry capacity: Leading node products
> Mature nodes: MOSFETs, power ICs, microcontrollers, and drivers
> Packaging & materials: ABF Substrates and Tea Glass
> Networking: Optical components
> AI infrastructure: CDUs (Cooling Distribution Units) and power racks
Hey, is there anything left out there that ISN'T in short supply?
What a times. Any suprised?
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$DELL latest numbers look massive, but the actual story is all about profit margins.
They raised their full-year revenue target to $192 billion.
Sounds great, right?
The catch is that lower-margin AI servers now make up over a third of their sales, which naturally squeezes their bottom line.
They pulled in $60.9 billion in AI orders, pushing their total backlog to $95 billion.
The demand is clearly real, but turning those orders into delivered products without hurting profitability is going to be tough.
The actual win for them this quarter?
Traditional servers grew 122%, and storage went up 26%.
That higher-margin gear pushed their ISG operating margin up to 15%.
Is Dell building a long term business model here, or will low-margin hardware pull them down later?
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