bottleneck

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They eased mechanical strain, making it practical to run banks of elevators continuously, packing in larger workforces and turning vertical circulation into a scalable system rather than a bottleneck.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Demand for server CPUs is outpacing supply, and shortages there are becoming a bottleneck to AI development, Bank of America analyst Vivek Arya said in a note earlier this week.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

“Management has suggested that AI compute could become a bottleneck within the next three to four years, implying that any serious effort to address this constraint would need to begin well ahead of that window.”

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

The new Vera Rubin and Groq combined servers will have 500 times as much high bandwidth memory as the Hopper generation, helping solve the memory bottleneck.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

Bombarding the waste uranium with neutrons would allow the United States to “break the bottleneck of this raw material problem,” he promised.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik