latency
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Switching to the Sport drive mode eliminates the tip-in latency and allows the engine to sustain high revs longer before the transmission upshifts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Compared to AMD’s fifth-generation Turin CPUs, Nvidia said Vera delivers up to 1.9 times faster agentic performance and six times better latency.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
“Arm’s core competency lies in latency and efficiency—which aligns well with hyperscaler needs,” Arcuri wrote.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
The speed with which that data moves between processors and memory chips governs the latency, or response time, for a query.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
There is, however, one presently known exception to the fact that a long period of latency is common to most malignancies.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
“We are investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region,” AWS said on its website.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
“As technologies and networks advance, with better bandwidth and lower latencies, mobile devices will be able to download even higher-quality content,” said Panayiotis Gabrielides, a senior official at the telecom company involved in the project.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
"Consumers will experience gigabits-per-second throughputs and single-millisecond latencies," according to Verizon.
From The Verge ● Jul. 11, 2016
In low earth orbit, with relatively low latencies, telerobotic systems can accomplish a great deal through direct manipulation.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2015
This is the way all our associations in life work together for good to develop our latencies, to strengthen our weak points.
From Happiness and Marriage by Elizabeth Towne
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