bottleneck
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Chandana says today, access to space remains "a major bottleneck, with satellite operators often waiting for months or even years for a launch opportunity" and that their venture expects to change that.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
As detectors become larger, manufacturing, assembling, and reading out millions of individual components can become a major technological and financial bottleneck.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
"Investors are still desperate for anything bolted to AI infrastructure, especially if it sits close to the high-bandwidth memory bottleneck."
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
For investors, that makes the first question simple: Does the company sell into a bottleneck, or into the broader humanoid dream?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
An hour later we arrived atop the Yellow Band, and a bottleneck ensued as each climber cautiously descended the vertical limestone cliff.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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Purveyors of bearings, fasteners, pneumatics and other manufacturing staples should see demand outpace their capacity to easily meet it, potentially leading to bottlenecks similar to what investors are seeing with memory chips.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Semiconductors and semiconductor equipment, which are closest to the physical bottlenecks of the AI buildout, have been among the sectors benefitting most from the spending boom.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
Increasing indium-phosphide substrate production should go a long way to easing bottlenecks for optical devices, as JX Advanced Metals sells its entire output to third parties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Those supply-side pressures are broad-based, including tariffs pushing up the price of goods to higher fertilizer and oil prices because of the Strait of Hormuz bottlenecks.
From Barron's ● Jun. 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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