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bottleneck

[bot-l-nek] / ˈbɒt lˌnɛk /


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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

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

From MarketWatch Jun. 30, 2026

Building additional pipelines may shift the location of the bottleneck, but it does nothing to eliminate the underlying vulnerability.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

It’s a time killer when you’re running late, a bottleneck when the release bell rings; and it’s noisy.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

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

Supply-chain bottlenecks forced companies to rethink their dependence on overseas suppliers in favor of more domestic sourcing and inventory stocking that required factories and warehouses.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 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

Nomura analysts offer a deep dive into the semiconductor industry — and some bottlenecks that the market hasn’t even woken up to.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 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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