bottleneck
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One potential bottleneck could be a lack of high-voltage transmission lines that carry electricity from power plants over long distances.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
Genetic studies suggest modern humans spread into different parts of the world roughly 100,000 years ago and later experienced what scientists call a genetic bottleneck.
From Science Daily • May 11, 2026
“Connectivity is the new bottleneck and battleground,” Bernstein analysts wrote in a nearly 100-page report on Sunday.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026
This allows compute and memory to be fabricated onto the same chip, removing a critical bottleneck that slows things down in AI servers.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
Fortunately, the rest of the brain is equipped with a workaround for the bottleneck.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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