bottleneck

A population bottleneck occurs when a group becomes very small, reducing genetic variation.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

‘Whenever you get a supply bottleneck, people figure ways around it.’

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

The world is moving to “physical ASI,” he said, where the bottleneck is no longer model design but the chips, power and data‑center capacity needed to operate advanced systems at scale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

U.K. central bank says it may yet raise rates to tame inflation triggered by closure of the energy bottleneck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

So catastrophic was the decline that the Siriono passed through a genetic bottleneck.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Samsung Electronics is reportedly proposing to raise the average selling price of its dynamic random access memory chips by 20%, another sign of the bottlenecks that are gripping the industry.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

“We are basically reaching the absorption-capacity level,” Rutte said, with governments working to overcome two main bottlenecks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

As supply bottlenecks worsened and oil prices soared, analysts dramatically revised up their expectations for near-term profit growth.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

The BIS noted that AI investment faces bottlenecks in energy and semiconductors, and a bust could destabilize the financial system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Unfortunately, the nanoseconds used up in a simple computer operation do add up to lengthy bottlenecks on intractable problems, many of which would require millennia to solve in general.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos