bottleneck
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Rocket Lab has also said Neutron could help solve a looming commercial-launch bottleneck.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
A growing bottleneck in data centers, which Bernstein analyst Daniel Zhu dubbed the “bandwidth wall,” is leading to billions of dollars’ worth of investment into high-speed networking and optical hardware.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has DP World racing to reroute cargo around a bottleneck that once seemed improbable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The disruptions have pushed U.S. wheat futures to three-year highs in recent weeks, and could accelerate food inflation if the bottleneck isn’t removed soon, analysts warn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The entryway of Mitch’s house is a bottleneck.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
Junctions on the M4 in Newport could close, and a new bridge built across the Menai Strait, as part of Welsh government plans for two notorious transport bottlenecks.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
But bottlenecks have slowed delivery of critical weapons.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
On the infrastructure side, data-center bottlenecks are creating massive pricing power for certain companies.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
That is the highest since mid-2022, when prices soared amid the supply-chain disruptions resulting from the Covid pandemic that led to insufficient inventory, labor shortages and bottlenecks at ports and railroads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 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
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