bottleneck
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Without enough of it, customers running lots of queries or agents can hit the “memory wall”—the bottleneck caused when a chip can’t access data quickly enough, forcing users to wait longer for models to respond.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
Additionally, Shi sees agentic AI EDA tools easing the labor bottleneck for customer-owned tooling, or the process of a customer, rather than the chip supplier or manufacturer, owning the chip-manufacturing tools and equipment.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026
How quickly this eases the bottleneck of vessels trapped inside the Gulf remains to be seen.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
"Additionally, San Francisco Bay is a highly trafficked waterway, and the Golden Gate Strait serves as a bottleneck through which all traffic and whales must enter and exit."
From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026
I said "bottleneck" at the airport, "bottleneck" on the train to Normandy, and "bottleneck" when presented with the pile of stones that was Hugh's house in the country.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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