Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Simona Jankowski - Goldman Sachs.
Simona Jankowski - Goldman Sachs
On the sales trajectory and linearity during the quarter, it looked like you were just a little bit light relative to your guidance and Street expectations in terms of sales. Then you also made the comment that you had record chassis shipments in the quarter and it also seemed that your TAMs were actually doing pretty well and it looked like the orders and the billings accelerated particularly at the end of the quarter. So can you help us reconcile and understand how the quarter developed versus expectations and where the slight shortfall came from.
Duston Williams
As you know, we guided to 70, we came in effectively at 69 so we did have a fair amount, as I mentioned, in inventory awaiting customer acceptance and any time you try to pick that timing perfectly, you're never going to get it exact there. But we did build up that inventory that's sitting at customers waiting for acceptance. And some of those could have gotten accepted in the quarter. You never know when that's going to happen at the end of the quarter and a few of them just went into Q3.
Simona Jankowski - Goldman Sachs
And you said that was a $6.0 million amount?
Duston Williams
The increase was a $6.0 million increase quarter-over-quarter in that balance.
Simona Jankowski - Goldman Sachs
And that was the amount that kind of fell into the third quarter that you thought might have fallen into Q2?
Duston Williams
No, I'm just saying in general, it's hard to pick what's going to get accepted and what's not going to get accepted.
Simona Jankowski - Goldman Sachs
On the closing of the Maryland fab, is that primarily a cause-driven decision?
Jagdeep Singh
Yes, effectively what it is it allows us to more effectively consolidate our fabrication capabilities here in Sunnyvale where we've never seen the line capabilities we have on the [inaudible] side and it has a fila[?] fab that we believe has higher volumes and therefore better economics going forward.
Simona Jankowski - Goldman Sachs
And Jagdeep, if you can comment a bit on the CEO change and how will your role change day to day and what, if any, shift in strategy or authorizations can we expect under Toms' leadership.
Jagdeep Singh
It turns out there actually really isn't much change in terms of the overall impact on the company. If you think about it, Tom has already been taking on an increasingly greater sort of role in terms of running the company overall. He started out running operations and he has taken module and customer service and support and HR and IP and even engineering. And so effectively, there isn't that much that Tom doesn't already run and this is really just a continuation of that process.
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